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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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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.
Read moreOn December 21, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied plaintiffs Stop Hillary PAC and Dan Backer's Motion for Preliminary Injunction. The plaintiffs had sought …
Read moreOn December 18, 2015, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Edward Lynch, Sr., Lynch for Congress and …
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At its open meeting of December 17, 2015, the Federal Election Commission elected Matthew S. Petersen
as Chairman and Steven T. Walther as Vice Chairman for 2016. Mr. Petersen has …
On December 16, 2015, the Commission unanimously approved seven recommendations for changes to current campaign finance law. Some of the recommendations relate to the law’s registration and reporting requirements, including …
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The Commission will offer its annual Year-End Reporting and FECFile workshops in January 2016. The webinars for PACs and party committees will be held on January 13, while the webinars …
Ohio will hold special primary and general elections to fill the U.S. House seat in Ohio’s 8th Congressional District vacated by Representative John Boehner. The Special Primary will be held …
Read moreA limited liability company (LLC) taxed as a corporation may provide an app that “rounds up” each transaction on a user's credit or debit card to the next dollar, and …
Read moreOn December 10, 2015, the Commission moved to amend its complaint against Utah businessman Jeremy Johnson to add John Swallow as a defendant. In June, the Commission had filed suit …
Read moreOn November 23, 2015, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ("CREW"), and Melanie Sloan filed a Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief in the U.S. District Court for the …
Read moreAdvisory 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.
Read moreOn November 25, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the plaintiffs'' application to convene a three-judge court to hear their constitutional challenges.
The plaintiffs—the Republican …
Read moreOn November 19, 2015, Martin J. O’Malley became the first 2016 presidential candidate to be declared eligible by the Federal Election Commission to receive federal matching funds. O’Malley is seeking …
Read moreThe Commission addressed several questions posed by two Super PACs (i.e., independent expenditure-only committees) regarding activities by Super PACs, single-candidate committees, 527 organizations, candidates and prospective candidates.
Background
Senate Majority …
On November 6, 2015, the Commission voted not to initiate a rulemaking in response to a petition filed by Level the Playing Field that sought changes to the candidate debate …
Read moreFederal Elections 2014: Election Results for the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, compiled by the Commission’s Public Records Office, is now available on the Commission’s website …
Read moreEthiq, Inc., a non-partisan, for-profit company, may develop and market a mobile application (the App) that will enable users to identify candidates and corporations who may share their views on …
Read moreA for-profit corporation may operate a web-based platform allowing members to pledge money to a federal candidate and, at the same time, designate a charity to receive the contribution instead, …
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The Commission will hold a webinar for nonconnected political action committees (PACs), including Super PACs, Hybrid PACs and Leadership PACs on Wednesday, December 2, 2015. Commission staff will conduct two …
Read moreIn determining whether televised advertisements reach enough viewers to qualify as "electioneering communications," 21st Century Fox may exclude its cable and satellite customers whose subscription packages do not provide access …
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