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FEC: An Agency Tasked with Regulating First Amendment Activity
January 1, 2018  •  By IFS Staff  •    •  

The Federal Election Commission is the independent agency charged with enforcing federal campaign finance law and enacting campaign finance regulations. The FEC was created after the Nixon Administration’s Justice Department pursued criminal campaign finance charges against the President’s critics. In light of that effort, Congress correctly rejected the idea of letting a future president effectively control a government agency tasked…

CCP Urges FEC to Initiate Rulemaking
December 20, 2012   •  By Sarah Lee   •  , ,

The Center for Competitive Politics today filed comments supporting a Petition for Rulemaking submitted to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by the Center for ...

Van Hollen Reversal a Victory for Free Speech

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September 18, 2012   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  

This morning, a unanimous federal appeals court overturned a lower court’s invalidation of an FEC regulation dealing with donor privacy. The lower court had ...

Should Government Track Your Political Activity (Video)
September 10, 2012   •  By Brad Smith   •  , , ,

Professor Brad Smith asks you to imagine the following scenario: at the height of the War on Terror, the government passes a second PATRIOT ...

NDPAC AOR
July 26, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

Center for Competitive Politics Legal Director Allen Dickerson joined attorney Benjamin T. Barr and local counsel Dan Backer of DB Capitol Strategies in filing ...

FEC Approves Donations Via Text

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June 12, 2012   •  By Sarah Lee   •  

In a unanimous decision yesterday, The Federal Election Commission (FEC) approved a proposal to allow small dollar donations to candidates via text after rejecting ...

Campaign Donations via Text May be on the Horizon

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May 25, 2012   •  By Sarah Lee   •  

It doesn’t happen often but sometimes the boys meet on the  political battlefield with white flags hoisted and agree — not agree to disagree, ...

FEC Comments March 7th, 2012
March 8, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , , ,

CCP submitted comments to the FEC regarding the Citizens United decision. 

CCP VP Allison Hayward Speaks for Democracy at FEC Hearing
March 6, 2012   •  By Sarah Lee   •  , ,

The Center for Competitive Politics’ Vice President for Policy Allison Hayward will testify in front of the Federal Election Commission this Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at ...

Comments of CCP Legal Director Allen Dickerson on Representative Christopher Van Hollen’s Petition to the FEC
November 22, 2011   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

On August 22, 2011, CCP Legal Director Allen Dickerson submitted comments to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in opposition to a Petition for Rulemaking ...

Comments of CCP Legal Director Allen Dickerson on Representative Christopher Van Hollen’s Petition to the FEC
August 31, 2011   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  , ,

CCP believes that Congressman Van Hollen's petition misinterprets existing law while inappropriately attempting to enact by regulatory action what Congress has already rejected in ...

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