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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.
Editor's note: On September 21, 2018, legislation was enacted which contained a provision that makes the Federal Election Commission (FEC) the official point of entry for all Senate filings, effective …
Read moreThe Commission will hold its annual conference in Washington, DC, on May 21-22, 2009, for trade associations, membership organizations, labor organizations and their political committees. Commissioners and staff will conduct …
Read moreThe number of federally registered political action committees (PACs) increased by nine percent from 4,234 on January 1, 2008, to 4,611 by January 1, 2009.
For more than 20 years, …
Read moreFederal officeholder's ability to raise nonfederal funds to retire state campaign's debt (Jim Risch for Lieutenant Governor Committee, February 17, 2009).
Read moreThe Commission annually publishes an alphabetical listing of acronyms, abbreviations and common names of political action committees (PACs).
For each PAC listed, the index provides the full name of the …
Read moreThe FEC has an Advisory Opinion Search System available on its web site at www.fec.gov. This search function allows users to search for advisory opinions (AOs) by the AO number …
Read moreCME Group, Inc. may solicit voluntary contributions to its separate segregated fund from certain categories of individual members of two of its wholly owned subsidiaries, the Chicago Board of Trade …
Read moreThe Special General Election to fill the U.S. House seat in California's 32nd Congressional District vacated by Secretary Hilda Solis will be held on May 19, 2009. Under California law, …
Read moreBeginning in July 2009, the FEC will no longer print and mail copies of its monthly newsletter, the Record, and will instead distribute it electronically. The Record will continue to …
Read moreThe following reports are due in April:
While the misappropriation of committee funds is not common, the Commission has encountered a number of cases of where political committee staff misappropriated funds. In addition to the difficulties committees …
Read moreThere will be a special general election in California's 34nd District on May 19, 2009, and if needed, a special runoff election in that district on July 14, 2009. The …
Read moreFEC Form 3L, the new form to be used by campaigns, leadership PACs and party committees to disclose contributions bundled by lobbyists, registrants and lobbyist/registrant PACs, is now available. Click …
Read moreMonthly filing committees are reminded that they have a report due Friday, March 20, covering the month of February. On March 10, FECFile Version 6.3.1.1 became available for download …
Read moreMany PACs have contacted the FEC to find out their requirements under the new lobbyist bundling disclosure rules. As noted in a previous tip, PACs that are lobbyist/registrant PACs or …
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