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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. Access Record articles from 1975 through 2004 on the Record archive page. Tips for Treasurers are published once a week.
On August 2, 2016, the Commission published a statement of policy that expands the range of publicly available records on the agency's enforcement and administrative functions. 81 Fed. Reg. 50,702 …
Read moreOn July 22, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming entered a Consent Order and Judgment whereby the Commission agreed not to enforce the ban on corporate …
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 moreThe Federal Election Commission has cited four campaign committees for failing to file reports as required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (the Act).
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Read moreOn Wednesday, August 24, 2016, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EDT, the Commission will host a webinar to review the rules and reporting requirements for specific types of pre-election …
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Pennsylvania will hold a special general election to fill the U.S. House seat in Pennsylvania''s 2nd Congressional District vacated by Representative Chaka Fattah. The Special General will be held November …
The United National Committee, a political committee of the Unity Party of America, does not qualify as a national committee of a political party because, as a threshold matter, it …
Read moreThe Commission has released its statistical summary of 15-month campaign activity for the 2015-2016 election cycle. This summary covers funds raised and spent in connection with federal elections between January …
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 June 29, 2016, Huckabee for President withdrew its request for an advisory opinion regarding the use of a legal defense fund to pay a litigation settlement.
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The Commission has cited a campaign committee for failing to file a required pre-election report for the June 28 primary in New York.
As of June 23, 2016, the …
Read moreOn June 24, 2016, the Commission published a notice of Interim Final Rules to adjust for inflation the civil monetary penalties established under the federal campaign finance statutes administered by …
Read moreThe Federal Election Commission has certified a payment of $45,929.27 in federal matching funds to Jill Stein for President. The certified amount was in response to the second regular submission …
Read moreThe following reports are due in July:
On June 10, 2016, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and its Executive Director, Noah Bookbinder, (collectively, "CREW") filed suit against the Commission in the U.S. District Court for …
Read moreThe Commission has cited three campaign committees for failing to file required pre-election reports for the June 14 primaries in Nevada and South Carolina.
As of June 9, 2016, …
Read moreThe Commission has cited eight campaign committees for failing to file required pre-election reports for the June 7 primaries in California, Iowa, North Carolina and New Mexico.
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Read moreThe Commission has published in the Federal Register a series of technical changes to various sections of Title 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). 81 Fed. Reg. 34861 …
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The Commission will offer Reporting & FECFile workshops this month to help committees prepare for their July quarterly and monthly reports. The Reporting and FECFile webinars for Candidate Committees will …
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.