delays. the fbi has signaled it will not file criminal charges against irs employees and indicated the problem was not political biased but a badly-run agency that didn t understand the tax exemption laws it was in charge of enforcing. irs is clarifying rules for what tax-exempt social welfare groups can spend and do in campaign and candidate related political activity t would affect groups on both sides of the aisle. political spending activity social welfare groups would be limited no more than 49% of their overall activity in any given year. couldn t run candidate specific ads 30 days before a primary are nor run them 60 days before general election. use of direct mail, voter registration drives, get out the vote efforts, all would be regulated. whether they could hold forum and candidate debates. irs is taking public innut until the end of february. they already said they don t expect to issue new rules before the 2014 midterm. it won t happen this year.