Paul Ryan in The Hill: In my decade-plus as an attorney at the Campaign Legal Center (CLC), a nonpartisan legal organization, we’ve filed dozens of administrative complaints with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against those we believed to be violating… Continue reading

Opinion.

Bloomberg BNA: The Federal Election Commission’s failure to resolve past enforcement cases involving super political action committees is likely to be targeted in a new round of legal actions by the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center, the group’s senior counsel,… Continue reading

Reuters reports.

Bloomberg BNA: Two Republicans on the Federal Election Commission, Matthew Petersen and Caroline Hunter, are distancing themselves from recent, controversial comments by fellow Republican Lee Goodman about the partisan impact of FEC enforcement decisions. “After the recent dustup regarding… Continue reading

CPI: A pair of anti-Hillary Clinton political committees are effectively telling the Federal Election Commission to take a long walk off a tall mountain. The groups — Dick Morris’s Just Say No to Hillary PAC and the Stop Hillary… Continue reading

Following up on the latest comments from Commissioner Goodman, FEC Vice Chair Peterson and Commissioner Hunter (the two other Republican-appointees to the Commission) send along the following statement: “After the recent dustup regarding alleged partisan considerations in the FEC’s enforcement… Continue reading

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Following up on Commissioner Ravel’s comments about statements made by Commissioner Goodman, Commissioner Goodman sends along the following further response: COMMISSIONER GOODMAN: At last Thursday’s FEC meeting, a Commissioner proposed that the FEC plow through its docket of cases… Continue reading

Bauer: A dispute over whether the FEC is tilting its investigations against conservatives or Republicans is mostly a waste of energy.  Commissioner Goodman got this started at a Commission hearing and has been rebuked by Commissioner Ravel.  The Republicans… Continue reading

Yesterday I posted a link to an article quoting FEC Commissioner Goodman claiming that there are many more complaints against Republican and conservative campaign finance organizations than liberal and Democratic ones. I offered three potential reasons for the disparity. FEC… Continue reading

Bloomberg BNA: Republican commissioners on the Federal Election Commission are reluctant to approve new procedures to speed up resolution of pending campaign finance enforcement matters because the backlog of pending complaints at the FEC involves many more Republicans and… Continue reading

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Brad Smith: Ann Ravel, the Democratic Chair of the Federal Election Commission, made headlines early this month when she told the New York Times that her agency was “worse than dysfunctional” and that “the likelihood of the [federal campaign… Continue reading