Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Campaign Billing for Media Changed

The Federal Election Commission deleted a rule allowing campaigns to charge the media for travel costs of campaign aides whose jobs are solely to assist journalists. The action was a reversal of an earlier FEC regulation. The commission also decided that campaigns cannot make media organizations pay some of the travel costs of Secret Service agents who provide security to candidates. News organizations had complained that they would unfairly be billed for expenses that should be paid for either by the Secret Service or by the candidates.