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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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Due to unusual and exigent circumstances and the demonstrated threat of foreign cyberattacks against party and candidate committees, Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC), a nonprofit corporation, may provide cybersecurity services, software, …
Read moreOn May 13, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied a motion by Leigh Brown and Leigh Brown & Associates (plaintiffs) for a preliminary injunction to …
Read moreOn May 21, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, sitting en banc, upheld the contribution limits as applied to testamentary bequests for national …
Read moreOn May 14, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a petition for rehearing en banc from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington …
Read moreThe 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 …
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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 …
Read moreOn 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 Columbia to …
Read moreOn 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 …
Read moreOsiaNetwork 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 …
Read moreThe 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 …
Read moreAdvisory 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 May …
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Printed copies of the 2019 edition of Federal Election Campaign Laws are now available from the Commission. The compilation contains all federal campaign finance statutes, along with a conversion table …
Read moreThe Commission will hold a one-day online seminar for political party committees on May 22, 2019. Commission staff will conduct several technical workshops on the federal campaign finance laws affecting …
Read moreOn April 12, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the Commission’s policy of disclosing certain documents from its investigations in closed enforcement …
Read morePrytany LLC may provide contribution-processing services through its platform without making any contributions or incurring any reporting obligations.
Prytany, a non-partisan, for-profit LLC, has developed an online platform that …
Read moreOn April 11, 2019, the Commission considered an advisory opinion request (AOR) from Leigh Brown. In her request, Leigh Brown, a congressional candidate, asked the Commission to determine whether radio …
Read moreOn March 31, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the FEC’s cross-motion for summary judgment and denied plaintiffs’ motion in Level the Playing Field, et …
Read moreOn March 29, 2019, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment to the Commission, denying the same to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in …
Read moreOn April 1, 2019, Ted Cruz for Senate and Senator Ted Cruz (plaintiffs) filed suit against the Commission alleging that the limit on repayment of candidate loans at 52 U.S.C. …
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