The Committee on House Administration has scheduled a full committee hearing today to mark up a number of bills, including HR 1994 (the Election Assistance Commission Termination Act) and a few bills that end the public financing of party conventions and presidential campaigns.  Speaking of machines, the Terminator is looking to save some money.  You can watch live here at 11:00a.m.

In HR 1994, the sponsors state emphatically that the EAC is not necessary for the conduct of federal elections and cites to numerous resolutions of the National Association of Secretaries of States (NASS) calling for the end to the agency.  The bill estimates savings of between $10-20 million dollars a year. Under the legislation, the federal testing of voting machines would be pushed back to the states, governmental actors or other private entities.