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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…

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 ...

Comments of CCP Legal Director Allen Dickerson on the James Madison Center for Free Speech’s Petition to the FEC
August 31, 2011   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  , ,

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 ...

Did FEC Get Too Much Info on ‘I Want Your Money?’

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October 20, 2010   •  By Allison Hayward   •  ,

How else to explain the inexplicable trouble the Federal Election Commission is having with a relatively straightforward request?

Counsel for the producers of ...

Comments of CCP Vice President Steve Hoersting on Coordinated Communications Rulemaking
January 20, 2010   •  By Steve Hoersting   •  , , ,

"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 ...

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