The pages of The New York Times reflected growing concern about the harms caused by LSC’s physical separation requirement twice this week, once in an editorial (“Separate and Inequitable”) and again in a letter to the editor (“Hobbling Nonprofits”). On December 5, 2005, the editorial page wrote, "The fact that Washington provides money for legal representation does not give it unlimited authority to control what lawyers say or do, or to restrict the use of private money so severely." In a letter to the editor in response to the editorial, Rev. Dr.

The FEC will consider on Dec. 15 amending the "electioneering communications" rule. The FEC has to rewrite regulations implementing BCRA, and plan to vote at their next open meeting on a final rule change. Action follows a FEC request for comments on draft regulations, however, no regulations have been promulagated as of yet...

The Federal Election Commission this week issued a draft rule on “coordination.” This Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was initiated as a result of an order of U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who ruled in Shays v. FEC that the FEC’s rule defining “coordination” undercut BCRA’s statutory purpose of regulating campaign finance and preventing circumvention of the campaign finance rules. For the draft reulemaking

Could it be? The administration might be ready to do something to protect the public? Here's a report from Congress Daily: