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The FEC announced today its decisions in a couple of "MURs" (that's "Matters Under Review" for you normal folk).   The one

Light blogging through the New Year doesn't mean that we can't share a good laugh.  Fortunately, the humorless "reform" community is always there to ...

In a bit of welcome news for the Free Speech Community, a special three judge district court has ruled ...

We always knew that the so-called "Millionaire's Amendment" was a silly law, but if the FEC's most recent pronouncement on the law's requirements is ...

The Federal Election Commission has adopted new guidelines requiring political committees to include more information about the purposes of their various disbursements.  It goes ...

The New York Times once again pulls out its Thesaurus of invective to tackle the issue of campaign finance reform.  Next time, we suggest they ...

Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center are unhappy.  They describe the FEC’s ruling yesterday as “too little, ...

Why are so many so eager to invoke McConnell when interpreting FECA?

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In the past, articles in the online magazine Salon.com have referred to 527 groups as "shadowy", "stealth PACs", that "clearly enjoy a loophole ...

The FEC declined to answer Progress for America's request for advice by a vote of 4-2 (Chairman Toner, Comm'r von Spakovsky dissenting), calling it ...