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…
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 ...
On August 22, 2011, CCP Legal Director Allen Dickerson submitted comments to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in opposition to a Petition for Rulemaking ...
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 ...
CCP believes that the James Madison Center for Free Speech's petition properly aligns FEC regulations with the understanding of the First Amendment recently articulated ...
How else to explain the inexplicable trouble the Federal Election Commission is having with a relatively straightforward request?
Counsel for the producers of ...
"Before the FEC adopted a content standard in its coordination investigations, the specter of a coordination investigation served as a kind of Hobson's choice ...
It may be a cliché to observe that campaign finance reform has proved conclusively that the road to perdition is paved with good intentions and that ...
The Federal Election Commission administers and enforces federal election laws. But campaign finance reformers have argued for years that the FEC does little to stem ...
In the mid-1970s, Congress designed the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to be a bipartisan independent regulatory agency. By congressional design, the agency’s structure is intended ...
As the Commission is aware, the advisory opinion was requested by the National Right to Life Committee, Inc. (NRLC), “a non-stock, not-for-profit corporation, exempt from ...