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WASHINGTON – At its open meeting today, the Federal Election Commission approved two advisory opinions, a Notice of Disposition of a rulemaking, and certification of presidential matching fund payments to …

To encourage support for its separate segregated fund (SSF), the connected organization may pledge to match all or a portion of a contribution to its SSF with a donation to …

The Commission will host a series of webinars to help committees prepare to file their disclosure reports due in October. The webinars for candidate committees will be offered on September …

PACs, political parties and presidential campaign committees that file monthly have a report due by Tuesday, August 20, covering the month of July. Quarterly filing PACs and political party …

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission cited three campaign committees today for failing to file the 12-Day Pre-Primary Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended …

Texas will hold a Special General Election on November 5, 2024, to fill the 18th Congressional District House seat held by the late Representative Sheila Jackson Lee. Under Texas law, …

If a campaign committee has net debts outstanding after an election is over, it may raise contributions to retire the debt provided that:

• The contribution is designated for that election …

On August 1, 2024, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the Commission’s motion to dismiss a complaint filed by Free Speech for People and Campaign …

A principal campaign committee may ask its general election contributors to redesignate their contributions to its recount fund.

Background

Representative Bob Good was a candidate for the Republican nomination in …

On August 1, 2024, the Commission published a notification of availability in the Federal Register at 89 Fed. Reg. 62671 that seeks public comment on a petition for rulemaking filed …

If you make independent expenditures in connection with an upcoming election, you may trigger special reporting obligations. Political committees and other persons that make independent expenditures may have to disclose …

On August 1, 2024, the Commission published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register that seeks public comment on a proposal to eliminate the use of FEC …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order in Free Speech for People, et al. v. FEC (Case No. 22-666) today, …

On August 1, 2024, the Commission published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register seeking public comment on a proposal to expand the Administrative Fines Program (AFP) to …

To date, political committees, individuals and organizations have disclosed spending $485 million on independent expenditures during the 2024 election cycle. If you’d like to learn more about these unlimited …