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Campaign Finance Law Basics:

• Our Internet publication, Supporting Federal Candidates - A Guide for Citizens, and our brochure, Volunteer Activity, are designed to help citizens become active in the federal election process. (En Español)
  
  
• Our brochure, The FEC and the Federal Election Campaign Law, gives a brief overview of the federal election law and the FEC's role in administering and enforcing it. (En Español)
  
  
  

Topics of Particular Interest:

• The FEC's 1999 Legislative Recommendations [PDF].
  
  
• The Federal Election Commission Annual Report 1998 [PDF] describes the Commission's responsibilities and activities during the year.
  
  
• The Commission's 20 Year Report [PDF] offers a snapshot of the agency and the law it adminsters, focusing on significant issues of recent years. Topics include soft money, personal use of campaign funds and corporate/labor involvement in federal elections.
  
  
• The FEC's 1993 report, The Presidential Public Funding Program, describes and evaluates the public funding system.
  
  
• Public Funding of Presidential Elections provides an overview of the public funding program, and the $3 Tax Checkoff brochure explains how the program is financed. (En Español)
  
  
• Our Foreign Nationals brochure explores the ban on contributions by foreign nationals. (En Español)
  
  
• The brochure on Independent Expenditures explains the rules for making (and reporting) unlimited independent communications supporting or opposing a candidate for federal office.
  
  
• Our Contributions brochure covers all of the limits on contributions made to influence federal elections. The $25,000 Annual Contribution Limit brochure focuses on the annual limit on individual contributions.
  
  
• The Filing a Complaint brochure explains the FEC's enforcement process.
  
  
• A brochure entitled Federal and State Campaign Finance Laws clarifies the jurisdictional difference between federal and state election laws.
  
  
• Quick Reference Charts of state campaign finance laws, excerpted from Campaign Finance Law 98, are available.
  
  
• For additional publications, visit our Help for Candidates, Parties and PACs page.