USA Today reports:  A House committee approved legislation Tuesday to shut down the
federal commission set up more than 10 years ago to help states improve
their election systems.

“This agency needs to go,” said
Mississippi Republican Rep. Gregg Harper, who introduced the bill to
eliminate the Election Assistance Commission. “This agency has outlived
its usefulness and to continue to fund it is the definition of
irresponsibility.”  The House Administration Committee approved
the legislation by voice vote. This marks Harper’s third attempt in four
years to close the bipartisan independent commission, which he called a
“bloated bureaucracy.”