Mr.Obama is making the change amid outrage over record payouts to financial executives, some of whom work at companies that needed Washington to bail them out with billions of taxpayer dollars last year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

"I do appeal to the candidates and to their campaigns and also to the voters to demonstrate the patience and calm that is required for the ECC to carry out its work in order to make sure that when we look back at the entire election process that we can say that it had the credibility that is required,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.24