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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. Tips for Treasurers are published once a week.
Campaign funds may be used to pay for a candidate’s childcare expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity.
Mary Jennings Hegar is a candidate ...
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.
On July 31, 2019, the Commission published a notice of availability in the Federal Register at 84 FR 37154 that seeks public comment on a petition for rulemaking filed by ...
Pro-Life Democratic Candidate PAC, a nonconnected political committee, may operate a draft fund to collect contributions for a yet-unnamed Democratic candidate for President who meets certain experience and endorsement criteria ...
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 ...
Area 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 ...
The 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 ...
The 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 ...
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.
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 ...
On 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 ...
The following reports are due in July:
On June 5, 2019, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (“CREW”) and Noah Bookbinder (collectively “plaintiffs”) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ...
The Commission will offer reporting and FECFile webinars on July 10 to help federal PACs and political party committees prepare for their Mid-Year or July Monthly disclosure reports.
The reporting ...
On May 22, 2019, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed suit in the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia to challenge the Commission’s alleged failure to act ...
System73, an incorporated communications technology network, may enter into license agreements with political committees for the exclusive right to livestream the committees' events.
System73 provides internet livestream and linear ...
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.
The Commission will hold a regional conference in San Diego, California, on October 29-30, 2019. Commissioners and staff will conduct a variety of technical workshops on the federal campaign finance ...
Due to unusual and exigent circumstances and the demonstrated threat of foreign cyberattacks against party and candidate committees, Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC), a nonprofit corporation, may provide cybersecurity services, software ...
On May 13, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied a motion by Leigh Brown and Leigh Brown & Associates (plaintiffs) for a preliminary injunction ...