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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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WASHINGTON — The Federal Election Commission has named Tony Baptiste as Acting Inspector General.
Mr. Baptiste will join the Commission from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Commodity ...
The Commission will offer Reporting and FECFile webinars on June 26 to help federal candidates and their committees prepare for the July Quarterly disclosure reports.
The reporting session will address ...
WASHINGTON – The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today issued an Opinion and Per Curiam Judgment in Libertarian National Committee (LNC) v. FEC (Case No ...
Printed copies of the 2019 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 ...
Monthly filers have a report due on Monday, May 20th covering the month of April. Please note that the FEC does not have authority to extend filing deadlines, so filers ...
WASHINGTON – The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today issued an Order in CREW, et al. v. FEC (Case No. 17-5049), denying a petition for ...
WASHINGTON – The United States District Court for the District of Columbia today issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order in Brown, et al. v. FEC (Case No. 19-1021).
Federal candidates cannot use campaign funds to pay for personal expenses—i.e., any expense that would exist irrespective of their candidacy or duties as a federal officeholder. Recently, a ...
WASHINGTON – The Federal Election Commission at its open meeting today approved a list of future meeting dates for 2019. It also discussed two advisory opinion requests and a motion to ...
On April 24, 2019, Giffords, a 501(c)(4) organization founded and led by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, filed suit in the U. S. District Court for the District of ...
On Wednesday, May 22, Commission staff will conduct online workshops for political party committees. Beginners are encouraged to attend both the morning presentation on the basics of the law and ...
On May 2, the Commission published a notice of interim final rules on the point of entry for FEC reports in the Federal Register (84 Fed. Reg. 18697). The interim ...
OsiaNetwork LLC may provide services to political committees to permit individuals to use their internet-enabled devices to participate in cryptocurrency mining pools to benefit those committees. Individuals’ participation in the ...
The Commission will hold a one-day online seminar for federal candidates and their campaign committees on June 12, 2019. Commission staff will conduct several technical workshops on the federal campaign ...
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.
On April 11, 2019, Leigh Brown and Leigh Brown & Associates (plaintiffs) filed suit against the Commission. Brown is a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the ...
An SSF may sponsor an event for a candidate to which the general public is invited and may pay the costs of the event as an in-kind contribution to the ...