The Senate is likely to quickly confirm five Federal Election Commission (FEC) nominees. CQ Politics discusses the list of issues that await a FEC with a complete quorum. These include writing regulations to implement new bundling rules in the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, rewriting rules regarding "advertisements run in tandem by presidential candidates and the national parties. . . The commission also faces five months' worth of investigations, cases and complaints that are waiting for action, as well as several pending requests for advisory opinions from various groups and at least one now defunct 2008 presidential campaign." And as a column by Eliza Carney from the National Journal" ($$) describes the situation, "with a backlog of pending regulatory issues that have piled up since January, the new commission will be playing a game of catch-up for the rest of this election season."