Carney looks at problems with the FEC's political make up and how a recent agency action may invite fresh abuse by 527 groups. Critics are also unhappy with the agency's mid-December interpretation of lobbyist bundler rules.

The rules require lawmakers' campaigns to report the names of lobbyists who round up, or bundle, contributions on their behalf, but only when it has a formal tracking system for doing so, which critics say could allow campaigns to evade bundling rules. Further, the FEC rules allow campaigns to count individual lobbyist contributions at an event they are co-hosting with other lobbyists, rather than making them responsible for the entire amount raised.

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