Mike Levin: “I think today it was said in the Chamber that the Federal Election Commission test has been stricken by the Supreme…”

“I think today it was said in the Chamber that the Federal Election Commission test has been stricken by the Supreme Court's decision today, and that is simply not accurate. What the Supreme Court decided today was not to review a case, not to review a case from a court of appeals in which the Court said that the Federal Election Commission regulation was not constitutional. But we have another court of appeals in the Furgatch case adopting language which is the basis of the Federal Election Commission regulation, and the Supreme Court didn't review the ninth circuit's decision. So we have two decisions unreviewed by the Supreme Court, the ninth circuit decision with Furgatch language and a first circuit decision with the FEC language which is based on Furgatch.”