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  1. June 10, 2009, 4:35 pm

    MONEY & POLITICS: Smooth Confirmation Hearing for FEC Nominee John J. Sullivan

    The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has been a hotbed of partisan bickering and gridlock in recent years, but you wouldn't know it from today's Senate confirmation hearing on President Obama's first FEC nominee. Only three Senators attended today's Rules Committee hearing — Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York, the chairman, and Republicans Robert Bennett of Utah and Georgia’s Saxby Chambliss — and they all had nice things to say about the nominee, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Associate General Counsel John J. Sullivan. Republican Bennett went so far as to call him “eminently well-qualified for this position.” Read more

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