Chris Dodd: “I made the point last October when the allegations arose about the Democratic National Committee, Don Fowler, who is the…”

“I made the point last October when the allegations arose about the Democratic National Committee, Don Fowler, who is the chair of the DNC, and myself, asked the FEC to immediately conduct an investigation into these allegations. The FEC came before the Rules Committee a couple of weeks ago to present its budget, as they do on an annual basis. I asked them how the investigation was going. This was now March. I was stunned to have them report they have not even begun to look at this. So here is a request made 6 months ago on, obviously, a very serious matter, and they have not even begun to work on it. The reason, they say, is the caseload is backed up so much on them and there has been a reduction in their staff allocations. Now, obviously, more probing about that may be necessary.”