Week of July 8 – 12, 2024

Commission meetings and hearings

On July 9 and 11, the Commission met in executive session.

The Commission voted to cancel the open meeting scheduled for July 11.

Advisory Opinions

Request Received

Advisory Opinion Request 2024-08 (Bob Good and Good for Congress) On July 9, the Commission made public an advisory opinion request from Rep. Bob Good and his principal campaign committee, Good for Congress. Good for Congress intends to establish a recount fund for expenses incurred in connection with a possible recount in the recent Republican primary election for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, and the requestors ask whether they may seek contributors’ redesignations of general election contributions to the recount fund. The Commission will accept written comments on the request during the 10-day period following publication of the request (no later than July 19) and must issue a response no later than 60 days after the receipt of the complete request, that is, by Sept. 3, 2024.

Enforcement

The Commission made public three closed cases, as follows. For more information, see the case documents in the Enforcement Search System.

MUR 8090

COMPLAINANTS: Campaign Legal Center; Saurav Ghosh; Shanna Reulbach Ports; and NRDC Action Votes
RESPONDENTS: Save America and Bradley T. Crate, in his official capacity as treasurer (Save America); and Donald J. Trump
SUBJECT: The complaint alleged that Trump and his leadership PAC, Save America, violated the Act’s soft money provisions by directing or transferring $60 million from Save America to Make America Great Again, Inc., an independent expenditure-only political committee, reasoning that any contribution by Save America, an entity established, financed, maintained or controlled by Trump, at a time when he was allegedly a candidate, was subject to the $5,000 limit for contributions to non-authorized, non-party committees.
DISPOSITION: The Commission dismissed the matter.

MUR 8105

COMPLAINANT: Committee to Defeat the President and Ted Harvey, Chairman
RESPONDENTS: Representative Katherine Porter; Katie Porter for Congress and Alexander Warren, in his official capacity as treasurer (the Committee); and University of California, Irvine (UCI)
SUBJECT: The complaint alleged that UCI made and Porter and the Committee accepted prohibited corporate contributions in the form of reduced-rate housing. Porter was a 2018, 2020, and 2020 candidate for California’s 47th Congressional District.
DISPOSITION: The Commission dismissed the matter.

MUR 8231

COMPLAINANT: Timothy Conrad
RESPONDENTS: Charlie Kim in US Congress and Glen Luporini, in his official capacity as treasurer (the Committee); and Charles Kim
SUBJECT: The complaint alleged that Kim and the Committee failed to file required disclosure reports with the Commission and produced and distributed fliers and signs without adequate disclaimers. Kim was a 2024 primary candidate for Illinois’s 14th Congressional District.
DISPOSITION: The Commission exercised its prosecutorial discretion and dismissed the matter.

Litigation

Campaign Legal Center, et al. v. FEC (Case No. 22-5336) On July 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a Per Curiam Judgment and Opinion, affirming a 2022 Opinion of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and instructing the District Court to remand the case to the Commission.

Disclosure initiatives

National Party Account Search: The Commission has debuted a new search feature on FEC.gov that allows users to search separate national party committee account transactions. Users can search receipts and disbursements from these accounts: presidential nominating conventions, national party headquarters buildings, and election recounts and contests and other legal proceedings. These accounts were first authorized by a law enacted in December 2014; the search feature can return transactions beginning with when national parties first began reporting receipts and disbursements from these accounts.

Press releases

Appeals Court issues judgment and opinion in Campaign Legal Center, et al. v. FEC (issued July 10)

Outreach

On July 10, the Commission held a FECFile webinar for PACs and party committees.

Upcoming Commission meetings and hearings

July 23, 2024: The Commission is scheduled to meet in executive session.

July 25, 2024: The Commission is scheduled to hold an open meeting.

Upcoming educational opportunities

For more information on upcoming training opportunities, see the Commission’s Trainings page.

Upcoming reporting due dates

July 15: July Quarterly Reports are due. For more information, see the 2024 Quarterly Reporting schedule.

July 20: July Monthly Reports are due. For more information, see the 2024 Monthly Reporting schedule.

Additional research materials

Election Dates. The Commission has posted 2024 Presidential and Congressional Primary Dates, which are subject to change.

Contribution Limits. In addition to the current limits, the Commission has posted an archive of contribution limits that were in effect going back to the 1975-1976 election cycles.

Federal Elections 2020: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives is available. The data was compiled from the official vote totals published by state election offices.

FEC Notify: Want to be notified by email when campaign finance reports are received by the agency? Sign up here.

The Combined Federal State Disclosure and Election Directory is available. This publication identifies the federal and state agencies responsible for the disclosure of campaign finances, lobbying, personal finances, public financing, candidates on the ballot, election results, spending on state initiatives and other financial filings.

The Presidential Election Campaign Fund Tax Checkoff Chart provides information on balance of the Fund, monthly deposits into the Fund reported by the Department of the Treasury, payments from the Fund as certified by the FEC, and participation rates of taxpayers as reported by the Internal Revenue Service. For more information on the Presidential Public Funding Program, see the Public Funding of Presidential Elections page.

The FEC Record is available as a continuously updated online news source.

Other election-related resources

Videos on protecting U.S. elections. The FBI’s Protected Voices initiative provides videos designed to help political campaigns protect themselves from foreign influence. The 2019 videos offer guidance on ransomware, business email compromise, supply chain, social media literacy, and foreign influence operations. Other videos, released in 2018, include cyber hygiene topics such as social engineering, patching, router hardening, and app and browser safety.

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