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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. Access Record articles from 1975 through 2004 on the Record archive page. Tips for Treasurers are published once a week.
Presidential candidates raised nearly $2.8 billion and spent over $2.5 billion in the first 18 months of the 2019-2020 election cycle, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal …
Committees must file the following reports in October:
Did you know that a campaign committee may be able to accept additional contributions after an election to retire campaign debt?
If a campaign committee has net debts outstanding after …
On September 4th, 2020, the Commission closed the file on an advisory opinion request (AOR) submitted on July 8th, 2020 by Joan E. Farr, and Joan Farr for U.S. Senate, …
Party committees conducting get-out-the-vote (GOTV) activity now should be aware that such activity is considered to be federal election activity (FEA) under the Act. As such, it must be paid …
On August 19, 2020, the United States District Court for the District of Utah entered a consent judgment finding that defendant Jeremy Johnson knowingly and willfully violated the Federal Election …
Advisory opinion requests (AORs) pending before the Commission as of the end of the month are listed. Procedures for commenting on pending AORs are described here.
On August 13, 2020, The Patriots Foundation (“plaintiff”) filed suit against the FEC in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that the Commission failed to act …
The electioneering communications period for the general election begins on Friday, September 4 and runs through November 3. Any person who makes electioneering communications that aggregate more than $10,000 during …
On August 21, 2020, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a district court decision that the Commission’s independent expenditure disclosure rule at 11 CFR …
WASHINGTON – The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a Per Curiam Judgment and Opinion in Crossroads GPS v. CREW, et al. (Case No. …
The Commission will offer several webinars in September to help campaigns, PACs and party committees prepare their October reports. The cost for each webinar is $30. Register today!
Reporting Webinar …
The Commission will offer a series of webinars in September to help committees prepare to file their October quarterly or monthly disclosure reports. Candidate Reporting and FECFile workshops will …
On August 10, 2020, the Commission closed the file on an advisory opinion request (AOR) submitted on June 9, 2020 by Shaun McCutcheon, a former candidate for the Libertarian National …
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission cited eight campaign committees today for failing to file the 12-Day Pre-Primary Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended …