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The Commission will offer two electronic filing webinars on April 1, 2020, to help candidate committees, political action committees and parties prepare to file their April disclosure reports.

During the …

Georgia has scheduled special elections to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Senator Johnny Isakson. The special general election will be held on November 3, 2020, and the special …

Due to high demand for the March 18 Independent Expenditures Webinar, the Commission has added a second session on March 19 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.

During the interactive webinar, FEC …

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission cited a campaign committee today for failing to file the 12-Day Pre-Primary Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended …

On February 27, 2020, the Campaign Legal Center (plaintiff) filed suit against the FEC in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (the court). The plaintiff seeks …

The FEC's March 18 webinar on independent expenditures is nearly sold out. As a result, the Commission has decided to repeat that webinar on Thursday, March 19. Both sessions will …

On March 2, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed with prejudice a suit brought against the Commission by Free Speech For People challenging the Commission’s …

The FEC often receives questions about the rules governing internet activity conducted by political committees. While this article responds to some of the most common questions, it does not …

Advisory 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.

• AOR 2020-01
  Use …

Form 3L filers take note: the lobbyist bundling disclosure threshold has increased to $19,000 for calendar year 2020.

The Commission has also announced the coordinated party expenditure limits for 2020: …

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission cited 20 campaign committees today for failing to file the 12-Day Pre-Primary Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended …

If you make independent expenditures in connection with an upcoming election, you may trigger special reporting obligations:

• Political committees and other persons that make independent expenditures may have to disclose …

Monthly filers have a report due on Thursday, February 20 covering the month of January. Quarterly filers do not have a regularly scheduled report due this month, but if they …

The 2020 coordinated party expenditure limits are now available.

• For presidential nominees, the limit is $26,464,700.
• For Senate nominees, the 2020 limits range from $103,700 to $3,175,100, depending on each …

The Federal Election Campaign Act and Commission regulations require certain political committees to disclose information about lobbyists/registrants and lobbyist/registrant PACs whose bundled contributions within a covered period exceed a specified …