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Commission meeting agendas are usually published a week before a scheduled meeting. Sunshine Act Notices are announcements of open meetings and executive sessions. Notices for open meetings are published at least a week before a scheduled meeting and announce the date, time and a general list of items for discussion.
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.
Monthly filing PACs, political party committees, and presidential campaign committees have a report due Thursday, July 20, covering the month of June. (Note that PACs and party committees that filed ...
Campaign committees (except monthly filing Presidential campaigns) have a report due Saturday, July 15, covering activity after the closing date of their last report through June 30. (Quarterly filing PACs ...
All political committees must keep a record of each disbursement that they make, including a brief but specific description of why the disbursement was made, such as “dinner expense,” or ...
On July 12, 2017, the FEC will host a 90-minute reporting webinar for political action committees (PACs) and political party committees in preparation for the reports due on July 20 ...
PACs, parties, and presidential campaign committees that file monthly have a report due Tuesday, June 20, covering the month of May. (Note: PACs and party committees that filed quarterly in ...
On June 28, 2017, the FEC will host a 90 minute reporting webinar for candidates and their campaign committees in preparation for the upcoming quarterly filing deadline on July 15 ...
As part of the its website redesign, the FEC is creating new sections dedicated specifically to helping candidates, party committees, corporations, labor organizations, and PACs comply with the campaign finance ...
Pre-election reports are due Thursday, June 8 for candidates and committees active in the June 20 special elections in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District and South Carolina’s 5th District ...
The FEC’s Electronic Filing system will be unavailable on Tuesday, June 6, between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 12 midnight, EDT due to scheduled system maintenance ...
The FEC has released revised electronic filing specifications (v.8.2). After June 6, 2017, only filings formatted in Version 8.2 will be accepted. Current FECFile users need only ...
Registration is now open for the FEC’s June 7 webinar for federal candidates and their committees. Topics to be discussed include fundraising and solicitation techniques, permissible uses of campaign ...
May Reporting Reminder. Monthly filers are reminded they have a report covering the month of April due on Saturday, May 20. Please note that the FEC does not have authority ...
Authorized committees have a report due Saturday, April 15, covering activity from the closing date of their last report through March 31. Please note that the FEC does not have ...
If you anticipate running as a candidate in the 2017-2018 election cycle, there are specific registration requirements you should be familiar with in order to know how and when to ...
Registration is now open for the FEC’s March 29 webinar on federal campaign finance law for membership and labor organizations and their PACs. Topics to be discussed include PAC ...
Monthly filers are reminded they have a report covering the month of February due on Monday, March 20. Quarterly filers do not have a regularly scheduled report due this month ...
During the 2017-18 election cycle, the FEC will host regional conferences in Chicago, Illinois, Washington, DC, and Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona. These two-day training events offer the only opportunities this election ...
A special election is considered a separate election with a separate contribution limit. (Note that a special election may itself involve separate special primary, special general and/or special runoff ...
National and state party committees may make limited "coordinated party expenditures" on behalf of their general election nominees, including those running in special general elections. These expenditures may be coordinated ...