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The Commission will hold a regional conference in San Francisco, California, on October 23-24, 2013. Commissioners and staff will conduct a variety of technical workshops on the federal campaign finance …
Monthly filers are reminded that they have a report due Tuesday, August 20, covering the month of July. Quarterly filers do not have a report due then. However, unlike …
Read moreWASHINGTON – The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Western Division issued its Order in Mark W. Miller v. FEC (Case 1:12-cv-00242-SJD) yesterday, granting the Commission’s …
Read moreA retiring officeholder may use campaign funds to pay costs associated with the temporary storage of officeholder and campaign materials. These costs are ordinary and necessary expenses of a federal …
Read moreMassachusetts will hold Special Primary and General elections to fill the 5th Congressional district House seat vacated by Senator Edward Markey. The Special Primary will be held on October 15, …
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Read moreWASHINGTON – The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today issued its Opinion in Nader v. FEC (Case 12-5134), vacating the judgment of the district …
Read moreThe Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) may follow the same FEC regulations for legally married same-sex couples as it follows for spouses in an opposite-sex marriage. Specifically, the Commission concluded …
Read moreA federal candidate’s campaign committee may attribute joint contributions to each spouse in a legally married same-sex couple, even if only one spouse has income.
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Read moreOn June 28, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed Peter J. Vroom’s amended complaint, concluding that he lacked standing to challenge the Commission’s dismissal …
Read moreUnauthorized committees that do not file on a monthly basis have a report due Wednesday, July 31, covering activity from the closing date of their last report through June …
Read moreWASHINGTON –The Federal Election Commission today approved three advisory opinions and discussed and held over an advisory opinion request.
Advisory Opinion 2013-05 (Gallegly). The Commission concluded that the requestor, …
Read moreOn July 1, 2013, former U.S. Senate candidate Dan La Botz filed suit against the FEC in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the Commission’s dismissal …
Read moreOn July 11, 2013, the Commission approved an increase in the agency’s civil monetary penalties, as required under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990. The penalty amounts, …
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