Bloomberg BNA: The Federal Election Commission voted 4-2 to approve a controversial, long-pending advisory opinion allowing a political action committee to receive intellectual property produced by foreign volunteers. The vote at an FEC open meeting March 19 fell mainly… Continue reading

Bloomberg BNA: Democrats and Republicans on the Federal Election Commission deadlocked on a vote to decide whether to investigate possible reporting violations by a super political action committee supporting Hillary Clinton, according to documents released by the FEC March 13.… Continue reading

Bloomberg BNA.

WaPo: A new conservative watchdog group filed a complaint this week with the Federal Election Commission against the private voter data firm Catalist and dozens of Democratic party and candidate committees, accusing them of operating “an illegal coordination scheme”… Continue reading

FEC Chair Ann Ravel writes this oped in The Hill.  

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BLT: The Federal Election Commission has cleared Hillary Clinton and supporters of her would-be presidential run of allegations of campaign finance violations. The FEC said in a Feb. 12 letter that the commission “found that there is no reason… Continue reading

Bloomberg BNA: Although the case involved a Democratic candidate, it was dismissed due to the votes of the three Republican commissioners on the six-member FEC. The Republican commissioners have been reluctant to support enforcement actions based on charges of… Continue reading

The airing of grievances.

NLJ: But Bauer, who was White House counsel to President Barack Obama before joining Perkins Coie in 2011, said suggestions such as “tightening up the earmarking rules, regulating single PAC, single-candidate super PACs or other super PACs … this isn’t… Continue reading

Bauer: It seem unfair that just holding a hearing subjects the FEC to criticism and ridicule. The agency was acted entirely reasonably in inviting views on what it might do, if anything, in response to the McCutcheon case.  So… Continue reading

Alec MacGillis for Slate.

Press release via email: Chair Ann M. Ravel and Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub: FEC To Hold Public Hearing on Wednesday, February 11 Federal Election Commission Chair Ann M. Ravel and Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub are pleased to invite you to… Continue reading

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