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Commission meeting agendas are usually published a week before a scheduled meeting. Sunshine Act Notices are announcements of open meetings and executive sessions. Notices for open meetings are published at least a week before a scheduled meeting and announce the date, time and a general list of items for discussion.
Weekly Digests are published every Friday and summarize the week's publicly disclosed activity. Press releases are published as news happens.
FEC Record articles inform candidates and committees about FEC developments and are published as news happens. Tips for Treasurers are published once a week.
Members of Congress may spend campaign funds to install or upgrade a residential security system without those payments being considered an impermissible personal use of campaign funds.
On June ...
Monthly filing PACs, political party committees, and presidential campaign committees have a report due Thursday, July 20, covering the month of June. (Note that PACs and party committees that filed ...
WASHINGTON – At its open meeting today, the Federal Election Commission issued an advisory opinion, and discussed a second advisory opinion request and the Commission’s response to alleged foreign interference ...
Campaign committees (except monthly filing Presidential campaigns) have a report due Saturday, July 15, covering activity after the closing date of their last report through June 30. (Quarterly filing PACs ...
On August 2, 2017, the Commission will offer a webinar for first-time candidates and potential candidates, as well as their campaign staff. “Candidate 101: Getting Started” will provide an introduction ...
All political committees must keep a record of each disbursement that they make, including a brief but specific description of why the disbursement was made, such as “dinner expense,” or ...
Advisory opinion requests (AORs) pending before the Commission as of the end of the month are listed below. Procedures for commenting on pending AORs are described here.
AOR 2017-05
Application ...
On July 12, 2017, the FEC will host a 90-minute reporting webinar for political action committees (PACs) and political party committees in preparation for the reports due on July 20 ...
The American Association of Clinical Urologists, Inc. (“AACU”) and its separate segregated fund are no longer affiliated with the American Urological Association, Inc. (“AUA”).
The AACU and AUA are ...
Based on changes in the relationship between the American Urological Association, Inc. (“AUA”) the American Association of Clinical Urologists, Inc. (“AACU”), the two organizations are no longer affiliated. Previously, in ...
Utah will hold a Special General Election on November 7, 2017, to fill the U.S. House seat in Utah’s 3rd Congressional District being vacated by Representative Jason Chaffetz ...
The following reports are due in July:
The FEC often receives questions about the rules governing foreign nationals’ participation in U.S. elections. While this article responds to some of the most common questions, it does not ...