Roll Call has a story on the status of the Federal Election Commission (FEC).  The deadlock and dysfunction part is old news and sour grapes by an activist bureaucracy but now there is talk of the demise of the agency.  

Already short one officer, the Federal Election Commission will soon
have a dubious distinction: As of April 30, all five of its remaining
commissioners will be serving expired terms.  By now President Barack Obama’s failure to fully staff the
dysfunctional agency barely even riles government watchdogs. In theory
composed of three Republicans and three Democrats, the FEC has been
deadlocked for so long that, some argue, the agency could hardly grind
to more of a halt.

…Some conservatives argue that the agency should just be shut down. At
the recent Conservative Political Action Conference held near
Washington, D.C., a panel of three GOP attorneys argued that the agency
has “greatly overreached” its regulatory authority, according to a writeup by the Center for Public Integrity.