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Ready for Ron (R4R), a hybrid committee that has collected the names and contact information of thousands of potential supporters in a petition encouraging Governor Ron DeSantis (the Governor) to …

Committees must file the following reports in October:

• All authorized committees of House and Senate candidates must file a quarterly report by October 15, 2022. The report covers financial activity …

Printed copies of the 2022 edition of Title 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) are now available. Contact the Commission's Information Division at 202-694-1100 or 800-424-9530 (menu option …

Maggie for NH (the committee), the principal campaign committee of Sen. Maggie Hassan, may send short code text messages containing links to "split-it" fundraising pages without triggering joint fundraising rules …

A Senator’s principal campaign committee may use campaign funds to pay the costs of reasonable cybersecurity measures to protect the Senator’s home network without such payments constituting impermissible conversion of …

Pursuant to provisions of law recently invalidated by the Supreme Court, an authorized committee may reinstate and repay candidate loans that it previously converted to candidate contributions. The committee …

On September 8, 2022, the Commission published a Request for Additional Comment in the Federal Register at 87 Fed. Reg. 54915 that seeks additional public comment on previously proposed rules …

Pursuant to the Supreme Court's decision in FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate, the Commission is removing regulatory restrictions on authorized committees' repayment of candidate personal loans.

The …

Under the circumstances presented, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic National Committee (the committees) may retain and use contributions that their vendor failed to deposit within 10 days of …

State party committees and their chairs may solicit and direct nonfederal funds to a hybrid PAC’s non-contribution account because it is a “political committee” under the Federal …

A leadership PAC that had been its sponsor’s 2020 Senate campaign committee and has not raised any funds outside the limits applicable to authorized committees may convert to an authorized …

Indiana has scheduled a special election to fill the U.S. House seat in the 2nd Congressional District held by the late Representative Jackie Walorski. The Special General Election will be …

The Commission will host a series of webinars to help committees prepare to file their disclosure reports due in October. The webinars for PACs and party committees will be offered …

Google LLC (Google) will not make a prohibited contribution by offering a pilot program that excludes emails sent by federal candidate committees, party committees, and leadership PACs from …

Bridget Fleming for Congress, Jackie Gordon for Congress, Conole for Congress, and Max Rose for Congress (the "Committees") may seek to have contributions originally designated for New York's November 2022 …

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.

• AOR 2022-11
  Solicitation …

On March 25, 2022, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Commission’s dismissal of its administrative …

Campaign funds may be used to pay for overnight childcare expenses the candidate incurs when traveling for his own campaign and his spouse is not available to care for their …

A nonconnected political committee that has Members of Congress as its officers and on its board of directors is not a leadership PAC of those Members nor is it …

Sprinkle, a for-profit company, may provide contribution processing services to contributors without making a contribution to recipient candidates. Furthermore, when providing information to those contributors to aid in decision making, …