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stanley cups nett.Bennett, along with Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Cory Booker of New Jersey, requested the review on Oct. 18. BIG NEWS: @USGAO accepts our request to investigate @POTUS Voter Fraud Commission. pic.twitter/7u3PTeeN6bmdash; Michael F. Bennet @SenBennetCO October 26, 2017 We accepted the request and now goes through our system, Chuck Young, GAO s managing director of public affairs, told CBS News. It s in the queue and we have to wait until staff is available, so several months before the work gets underway and at that time we ll determine the full scope and methodology. Mr. Trump established the commission, led by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, to investigate allegations of voter fraud. But the commission has been questioned about its own transparency, or lack thereof. It s that lack of transparency that Democrats say prompted their review. The Democrats claimed the commission has ignored numerous requests from members of Congress seeking clarification of its activities, po Rwrj Conyers Still Wants Goodling To Testify
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copo stanley ection Commission.Here s Feinstein s statement announcing the mark-up: House candidates, Presidential candidates, political action committees and party committees are all required to file electronically. But Senators, Senate candidates and Senate campaign committees are exempt. Itrsquo time to bring the Senate into the modern era, SenatorFeinstein said.We currently have a cumbersome system in which paper copies of disclosure reports are filed with the Senate Office of Public Records, which scans them to make a digital copy and sends the copy to the FEC on a dedicated communications line. The FEC then prints the report and sends it to a vendor in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where the information is keyed in by hand and then transferred back to the FEC database ndash; at cost of approximately $250,000 annually to taxpayers. Frankly, this makes no sense to me. In scheduling this markup, I am also urging my colleagues to refrain from holding this bill hostage over other campaign
