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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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Mad Dog PAC, a nonconnected political committee, may raise funds by selling T-shirts bearing the facial likenesses and names of certain candidates.
Mad Dog PAC (the Committee) intends to …
Read moreArea 1 Security, a cybersecurity company that provides anti-phishing solutions, may offer its services to federal candidates and political committees at the same “low or no cost” tier that it …
Read moreWASHINGTON—The Federal Election Commission today announced the appointment of Christopher L. Skinner as the agency’s new Inspector General.
Mr. Skinner brings 10 years of Inspector General experience, including conducting investigations, …
Read moreThe Omar2020 committee may distribute valueless digital blockchain tokens to volunteers and supporters as an incentive to engage in volunteer activities.
The Omar2020 campaign committee created 10,000,000 digital blockchain …
Read moreAll political committees registered with the FEC have reports due this month:
WASHINGTON – The Federal Election Commission today approved three advisory opinions.
Advisory Opinion 2019-08 (Omar2020) The Commission approved an advisory opinion in response to a request from Omar2020, a congressional …
Read moreThe Commission will hold a regional conference in Chicago, Illinois, on August 27-28, 2019. Commissioners and staff will conduct a variety of technical workshops on the federal campaign finance laws …
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Every committee registered with the FEC has a report due this month—either a July 15 Quarterly, a July 20 Monthly or a July 31 Mid-Year. If you’d like …
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 June 6, 2019, the Commission discussed but did not vote on an advisory opinion request (AOR) from Area 1 Security, Inc., a technology corporation. The corporation’s AOR asked the …
Read moreOn June 13, 2019, Free Speech For People filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Commission’s alleged failure to act on its administrative …
Read moreThe FEC offers two manuals to help electronic filers use the Commission’s free FECFile software:
The following reports are due in July:
The Commission offers two days of reporting and FECFile webinars to help candidates, PACs and party committees prepare their upcoming reports:
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