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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.
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Federal candidates, parties and political action committees (PACs) collected more than $2.9 billion and spent more than $2 billion, between January 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012.
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… Read moreOn June 14, 2012, Free Speech filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming challenging the constitutionality of the Commission’s regulations, policies and practices regarding the …
Read moreOn June 22, 2012, Shaun McCutcheon and the Republican National Committee (together, plaintiffs) filed suit against the Commission in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the …
Read moreOn June 28, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit upheld the ban on corporate contributions in connection with federal elections. This appellate court ruling reversed a …
Read moreOn June 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a decision of the Montana Supreme Court that had upheld a Montana state law prohibiting corporations from making expenditures supporting or …
Read moreFollowing a reorganization and spin-off, Primerica, Inc. and Citigroup are disaffiliated entities for the purposes of the Federal Election Campaign Act (the Act). As a result, Primerica’s planned separate segregated …
Read moreThe Commission has certified payments of $66,490.99 in federal matching funds to presidential candidate Charles E. “Buddy” Roemer III and $130,058.91 to presidential candidate Gary Earl Johnson for the 2012 …
Read moreQuarterly filers have a report due on Sunday, July 15 (covering activity through June 30) and monthly filers have a report due on Friday, July 20 (covering the month of …
Read morePolitical committees now have the option to add a second email address to their contact information on FEC Form 1, the Statement of Organization. The Commission added the second …
Read moreThe following reports are due in July:
The Commission will offer workshops on FEC reporting and its free FECFile software at its headquarters in Washington, DC on Wednesday, July 11. Separate workshops will be offered for PACs …
Read moreThe Commission cited a campaign committee for failing to file the 12-Day Pre-Primary Election Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act (the Act) for the New York primary election …
Read moreThe Commission determined that two of the eight television advertisements proposed by the American Future Fund (AFF) meet the definition of electioneering communication and one does not, but could not …
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