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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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On May 23, 2014, a group of Republican party committees and committee chairmen filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to challenge the constitutionality of …
Read moreOn May 21, 2014, Chris Rufer, along with one state committee and one national committee of the Libertarian Party, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of …
Read moreOn May 19, 2014, the Supreme Court declined to hear Free Speech’s constitutional challenge to the FEC’s process for determining whether an organization qualifies as a "political committee." The Court’s …
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The
Commission has launched FECConnect, a new online training service that enables political committees and other groups to schedule live, interactive online training sessions with FEC staff. The service supplements …
The Federal Election Commission cited 10 campaign committees today for failing to file the 12-Day Pre-Primary Election report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (the …
Read moreOn May 13, 2014, the Federal Election Commission cited a campaign committee for failing to file its 12-Day Pre-Convention election report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, …
Read moreA nonconnected political committee may accept contributions in the form of bitcoin digital currency. It may also purchase bitcoins as an investment, but must sell the purchased bitcoins and deposit …
Read moreThe Federal Election Commission cited a campaign committee today for failing to file the 12-Day Pre-Primary Election Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (the …
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The Commission will offer July Quarterly/Monthly
Reporting and FECFile webinars next month. The workshops for candidates will be held on Thursday, June 19, and the PAC and party committee sessions …
On remand from the Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia aligned its judgment in James v. FEC with the high court’s opinion in McCutcheon, …
Read moreOn May 2, 2014, the Federal Election Commission cited two campaign committees for failing to file their 12-Day Pre-Primary Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as …
Read moreOn April 30, 2014, the Federal Election Commission cited one campaign committee for failing to file the April Quarterly Financial Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, …
Read moreA federal candidate may spend unlimited campaign funds on advertisements that promote both his own candidacy and the election of candidates for state and local office.
Edward Lindsey, a …
Read moreThe Commission has upgraded the search engine on FEC.gov to provide a single point of access to information from across the entire website. The new, more robust search system can …
Read moreOn April 14, 2014, a group of political committees and a federal candidate filed suit against the Commission in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia challenging …
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Printed copies of the 2014 edition of Title 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) are now available from the Commission. Contact the Commission's Information Division at (202) 694-1100 …
The 2014 edition of the Combined Federal/State Disclosure and Election
Directory is available on the Commission’s website (www.fec.gov). This directory identifies the federal and state agencies responsible for …
On April 2, 2014, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC that struck down the aggregate limits on the amount an individual may contribute during a two-year …
Read moreOn April 7, 2014, the Supreme Court vacated a district court judgment in James v. Federal Election Commission and remanded the case for further consideration in light of its decision …
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The Commission will hold a seminar for trade associations, membership and labor organizations
and their political action committees (PACs) at its Washington, DC, headquarters on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. The …