You can’t use the name of a candidate in your independent PAC name. This helps prevent confusion of voters giving to PACs. The Stop Hillary PAC and Dan Backer challenged this restriction as a violation of the First Amendment, and… Continue reading

FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel writes.

“The laws of reason have been suspended at the FEC, where corporations are people, commissioners are not, and now Mitt Romney gets to be two different people.” —FEC Commissioners Ravel and Weintraub, complaining about slap on the wrist… Continue reading

Dave Levinthal for CPI: The Federal Election Commission, a government agency tasked with policing what’s expected to be the nation’s most expensive election ever, will drag itself into the new year perhaps more internally injured than at any point… Continue reading

Release: Today, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) received notification that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has fined pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future (ROF) $50,000 for illegally spending millions of dollars airing an advertisement in 2012 that was… Continue reading

Bloomberg BNA: he Federal Election Commission has deadlocked in a 3-3 vote over allegations of illegal coordination involving the 2012 presidential campaign of former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), a super political action committee supporting Santorum, and Foster Freiss, a… Continue reading

Bob: To be clear, and to be fair: Commissioner Ravel did not appear to choose the particular example; there is plenty to complain about in the design of the campaign finance law and ample grounds on which to question,… Continue reading

Bloomberg BNA: The Federal Election Commission has received nearly 12,000 public comments overwhelmingly supporting the latest FEC proposals to write rules to control super political action committees and other campaign spending groups. Despite the number registering support, it was… Continue reading

Here it is, on the agenda.

In contrast to some of the press coverage, here’s Commissioner Weintraub’s statement on the recent Majority PAC AO: A funny thing happened at the end of the long and contentious meeting where this Advisory Opinion was discussed. It turned but… Continue reading