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WASHINGTON – Lynne A. McFarland, who has served for 27 years as the Federal Election Commission's first and only permanent Inspector General, is retiring after a 40-year career at the …

During the 2017-18 election cycle, the FEC will host regional conferences in Chicago, Illinois, Washington, DC, and Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona. These conferences complement the agency’s online seminars, and offer the only …

Alabama will hold Special Primary and General Elections in 2018 to fill the Senate seat vacated by Senator Jeff Sessions. The Special Primary will be held June 5, 2018, and …

WASHINGTON – Ann M. Ravel, who joined the Federal Election Commission in 2013 and served as Chair in 2015, will leave the Commission today. She plans to return to her …

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 2016-23 …

On February 27, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in this case. Independence Institute had challenged the constitutionality …

The Special General Election to fill the 6th Congressional District House seat vacated by Representative Tom Price will be held April 18, 2017. Under Georgia law, a majority winner in …

WASHINGTON – The United States Supreme Court today affirmed the three-judge court opinion of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Independence Institute v. FEC (Case …

A special election is considered a separate election with a separate contribution limit. (Note that a special election may itself involve separate special primary, special general and/or special runoff …

On February 22, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the Commission’s motion for summary judgment and dismissed a suit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and …

WASHINGTON – The United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order today in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, et al. v. …

National and state party committees may make limited "coordinated party expenditures" on behalf of their general election nominees, including those running in special general elections. These expenditures may be …

Kansas will hold a special general election to fill the U.S. House seat in Kansas' 4th Congressional District vacated by Representative Mike Pompeo. The Special General Election will be held …

The Special General Election to fill the 34th Congressional District House seat vacated by Representative Xavier Becerra will be held April 4, 2017. Under California law, a majority winner in …

The Federal Election Campaign Act, as amended by the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (HLOGA), requires certain political committees to disclose contributions bundled by lobbyists/registrants and lobbyist/registrant …

The 2017 coordinated party expenditure limits are now available.

The limits are:

• $97,400 for House nominees in states that have only one U.S. House Representative. This adjustment is calculated by …

Under the Federal Election Campaign Act (the Act), certain contribution limits are indexed for inflation every two years, based on the change in the cost of living since 2001, which …