ask your doctor about once-daily trelegy and the power of 1 2 3. trelegy 1-2-3 save at trelegy.com when every seat is taken, the federal election commission has six members split along party lines. three republicans and three democrats. that hasn t happened for a while. one democratic commissioner left in april 2017, then a republican commissioner left in early 2018. neither of them was replaced. that left the fec with four members which is the bare minimum you need for a quorum. the federal board that oversees u.s. election law haslem off li along with four. they are known for not getting much done in a few days. they did have four members. they did have a quorum. as of today they won t have that. republican fec commissioner matthew peterson announced he,
when you ve only got the bare four. there really is no excuse for the fact that the positions that have been vacant, as you pointed out, for over two years in one case and year and a half in the other case, have not been filled. however, trying to talk you down again. congress and the president can act and can act quickly if they are motivated. in fact, commissioner peterson is a great example of that. he was nominated and then confirmed 12 days later. so it is possible nort president to nominate people to fill the empty slots and for the senate to confirm them in fairly short order if they decide to do so. the last time we ran out of a quorum in 2008, it took six months before they decided to fill the empty seats and bring us back to full strength. i am sincerely hoping that we are not going to run into that situation again. if the president did decide that he wanted to fill these seats so the fec could be full
and it s complicated because you have to have everybody in the room in order to have a meeting. and if one person is ill or leave town for whatever reason, they can phone in, but it s hard to maintain a quorum when you ve only got the bare four. and there really is no excuse for the fact that the positions that have been vacant, as you pointed out, for over two years in one case and a year and a half in another case have not been filled. however trying to talk you down again congress and the president can act and can act quickly if they are motivated. in fact, commissioner peterson is a great example of that. he was nominated and then confirmed 12 days later. so it is possible for the president to nominate people to fill the empty slots and for the senate to confirm them in fairly short order if they decide to do so. the last time we ran out of a quorum in 2008, it took six months before they decided to fill the empty seats and bring
in theory because they did have four members, they did have a quorum. now as of today, they won t even have that. republican fec commissioner matthew peterson announced today that he, too, is stepping down from his job as commissioner of the fec. that will be in effect as of this weekend. that will mean the fec will be down to three members which is nos not a quorum, heading right into the 2020 election. i m sure there will be nothing to worry about in terms of election law and campaign finance irregularities. there is an explicit set of special rules for what the fec can do when they don t have a quorum. very specific instructions for that scenario. here goes. if less than four members of the commission are present at any time during a commission meeting, the chairman shall declare a temporary recess until a quorum is again present. at which time the meeting may resume. so at which time the meeting may that means they can meet, they can count heads.