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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 October 27, 2022, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW or plaintiff) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Commission’s dismissal …
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 October 28, 2022, Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 (plaintiffs) filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (the court) to challenge the FEC's …
Read moreOn November 4, 2022, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), James David Vance, and Steven Joseph Chabot (collectively plaintiffs), filed suit against the Commission in …
Read moreThe 30-Day Post-General report is due on December 8, 2022. The Post-General report covers activity from October 20 (or from the close of books of the last report filed) through …
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 October 28, 2022, the Commission published a notice of availability in the Federal Register at 87 Fed. Reg. 65178 that seeks public comment on a petition for rulemaking filed …
Read moreDSCC may pay for television advertisements that feature federal candidates and solicit donations to its Legal Proceedings Account subject to a reasonable cost allocation among the committee’s accounts. The candidate …
Read moreOn October 10, 2022, Common Cause Georgia, et al. (plaintiffs) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Commission’s dismissal of their administrative complaint. …
Read moreOn Wednesday, November 30, the Commission will host a webinar to help candidate committees prepare to wind down the campaign cycle and file their 30 Day Post-General Reports, due December …
Read moreA principal campaign committee may send short code text messages containing links to split-it fundraising pages without the associated costs amounting to in-kind contributions to the other federal political committees …
Read moreReady for Ron (R4R), a hybrid committee that has collected the names and contact information of thousands of potential supporters in a petition encouraging Governor Ron DeSantis (the Governor) to …
Read moreCommittees must file the following reports in October:
Printed copies of the 2022 edition of Title 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) are now available. Contact the Commission's Information Division at 202-694-1100 or 800-424-9530 (menu option …
Read moreMaggie for NH (the committee), the principal campaign committee of Sen. Maggie Hassan, may send short code text messages containing links to "split-it" fundraising pages without triggering joint fundraising rules …
Read moreA Senator’s principal campaign committee may use campaign funds to pay the costs of reasonable cybersecurity measures to protect the Senator’s home network without such payments constituting impermissible conversion of …
Read morePursuant to provisions of law recently invalidated by the Supreme Court, an authorized committee may reinstate and repay candidate loans that it previously converted to candidate contributions. The committee …
Read moreOn September 8, 2022, the Commission published a Request for Additional Comment in the Federal Register at 87 Fed. Reg. 54915 that seeks additional public comment on previously proposed rules …
Read morePursuant to the Supreme Court's decision in FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate, the Commission is removing regulatory restrictions on authorized committees' repayment of candidate personal loans.
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Read moreUnder the circumstances presented, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic National Committee (the committees) may retain and use contributions that their vendor failed to deposit within 10 days of …
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