Bush campaign files (2nd) lawsuit against FEC

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By SHARON THEIMER
The Associated Press
9/17/2004, 5:19 p.m. CT


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush's campaign on Friday filed its second lawsuit in a month against the Federal Election Commission in federal court in Washington, this time accusing the commission of failing to enforce the nation's campaign finance laws.

The Bush-Cheney lawsuit asked the court to order the FEC to adopt regulations restricting the groups, arguing the campaign laws require the commission to do so.

Its earlier case asked the court to order the FEC to act within 30 days on complaints the campaign filed in March against anti-Bush groups spending millions of dollars in unlimited donations in the presidential race, despite a law broadly banning the use of such "soft money" in federal races. U.S. District Judge James Robertson rejected that request Wednesday.

The campaign's new lawsuit mirrors one filed earlier this week by the lead House sponsors of a new campaign finance law, Reps. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., and Michael Meehan, D-Mass.

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