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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. Tips for Treasurers are published once a week.
The FEC’s recently updated Campaign Guide for Corporations and Labor Organizations is now available in print. The new guide contains the most up-to-date information regarding corporations, labor organizations, trade ...
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.
AO 2018-05
Vendor ...
On March 20, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia concluded that the Commission’s dismissal of an administrative complaint Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in ...
On March 21, 2018, the Commission published a notification of availability in the Federal Register (83 Fed. Reg. 12283) of a petition for rulemaking regarding the rules for the use ...
On March 1, 2018, Citizens for Responsibility for Ethics in Washington (“CREW”) and its executive director, Noah Bookbinder, (collectively “plaintiffs”) filed suit against the Commission in U.S. District Court ...
The following reports are due in April:
The Commission will hold a one-day online seminar for political party committees on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Commission staff will conduct several technical workshops on the federal campaign finance laws ...
The Libertarian Party of Utah (the “Committee”) qualifies as a state party committee under the Federal Election Campaign Act.
The determination of a state party organization’s status as ...
The Commission will hold a one-day online seminar for federal candidates and their campaign committees on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. Commission staff will conduct several technical workshops on the federal ...
The Commission will offer electronic filing webinars for candidate committees, political action committees (PACs) and political party committees on April 4, 2018. The webinars will demonstrate the Commission’s free ...
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.
AO 2018-01
Status ...
National Sorghum Producers and certain state producer organizations constitute a federation of trade associations under Commission regulations. Additionally, a proposed checkoff system for contributions and the use of those state ...
The Federal Election Campaign Act and Commission regulations require special reporting of certain contributions that are collected or “bundled” by lobbyists/registrants, or by political action committees (PACs) that are ...
The 2018 coordinated party expenditure limits are now available.
The limits are:
The Commission recently updated FEC Form 8 (Debt Settlement Plan) and Form 9 (24-Hour Notice of Disbursements/Obligations for Electioneering Communications) and their accompanying instructions. The new versions of each ...
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 2017-13
Checkoff ...
On January 12, 2018, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and Noah Bookbinder (together, “plaintiffs”) filed suit against the FEC in the United States District Court for the ...
The Commission launched a web portal that offers political committees a new way to get reporting help from their assigned Campaign Finance Analyst in the FEC’s Reports Analysis Division ...
On January 29, 2018, the Commission published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register (83 Fed. Reg. 3996) regarding proposed changes to its regulations on disclosure of certain ...
Ohio will hold Special Primary and General Elections to fill the 12th congressional district House seat vacated by Representative Patrick J. Tiberi. The Special Primary Election will be held on ...