FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN ACT

Amendments

Political campaigns: prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements for Federal elections (H.R. 5175), consideration (H. Res. 1468), H4793 [24JN]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (H.R. 5175), H4806, H4816, H4817, H4818, H4820, H4822 [24JN]

Articles and editorials

American Debate—Secret Donors vs. Democracy, S7875 [15NO]

Campaign Money To Burn, S7875 [15NO]

Donor Names Remain Secret as Rules Shift, S7322 [22SE]

Bills and resolutions

Business and industry: extend ban on political contributions by certain Government contractors to other for-profit recipients of Federal funds and limit contributions of employees of such recipients (see H.R. 4434), H138 [13JA]

———prohibit corporations which are subject to certain criminal or civil sanctions from engaging in campaign-related activity (see H.R. 5410), H3869 [26MY]

Dept. of the Treasury: require institutions to segregate Troubled Asset Relief Program funds and prohibit use of such funds for political expenditures or electioneering communications (see H.R. 4617), H606 [5FE]

Political action committees: make antitrust laws applicable to certain committees established and administered by a separate segregated fund of a corporation (see H.R. 4433), H138 [13JA]

———prohibit conversion of leadership political action committee funds to personal use (see H.R. 4724), H1026 [2MR]

Political campaigns: apply ban on contributions and expenditures by foreign nationals to domestic corporations in which foreign principals have an ownership interest (see S. 2954), S251 [26JA] (see H.R. 4510, 4522), H386 [26JA]

———apply ban on contributions and expenditures by foreign nationals to domestic corporations in which foreign principals have an ownership interest and increase penalties for violators of such ban (see H.R. 4517), H386 [26JA]

———apply ban on contributions and expenditures by foreign nationals to domestic corporations whose shareholders include any foreign principals (see H.R. 4523), H386 [26JA]

———apply ban on election activity by foreign nationals to domestic corporations which are subsidiaries of foreign principals (see H.R. 4540), H422 [27JA]

———disclose third-party communications made for or against a candidate and identifying information in Internet communications, and apply disclosure requirements to prerecorded telephone calls (see H.R. 4749), H1103 [3MR]

———prohibit an authorized committee of a candidate from disbursing committee contributions until the name of the contributor is publicly posted on the Internet (see H.R. 5086), H2695 [20AP]

———prohibit campaign contributions by lobbyists representing countries defined as state sponsors of terrorism or any other foreign national (see H.R. 5609), H4904 [28JN]

———prohibit corporations from making independent expenditures or disbursements for electioneering communications without prior approval of a majority of shareholders (see H.R. 4644), H647 [22FE]

———prohibit corporations which employ or retain registered lobbyists from making expenditures or disbursements for electioneering communications (see H.R. 4511), H386 [26JA]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements for Federal elections (H.R. 5175), consideration (see H. Res. 1468), H4778 [23JN]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (see S. 3295), S3006 [30AP] (see S. 3628), S6078 [21JY] (see H.R. 5175), H3077 [29AP]

———protect Federal, State, and local elections from the influence of foreign nationals (see S. 2959), S271 [27JA]

———reduce limit for certain contributions to a candidate with respect to an election for Federal office (see H.R. 4739), H1103 [3MR]

———reform financing of House of Representatives elections (see H.R. 6116), H6681 [14SE]

———repeal limit for contributions to Federal elections, coordinated expenditures by political parties, and protect uncompensated Internet activity from treatment as a contribution or expenditure (see H.R. 6286), H7390 [29SE]

———require certain campaign-related communications which are paid for by certain tax-exempt organizations or political organizations to include a statement naming their largest donors (see H.R. 4583), H554 [3FE]

———require corporations to identify their chief executive officer or labor organizations to identify their president in certain campaign-related communications (see H.R. 4527), H421 [27JA]

Securities: prohibit any national securities exchange from effecting securities transactions unless the issuing corporation is in compliance with political contribution and expenditure laws (see H.R. 4435), H138 [13JA]

Cloture motions

Political campaigns: prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (S. 3628), motion to proceed, S6191 [22JY], S6285 [27JY], S7388 [23SE]

Letters

Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act: Representative Jackson Lee, H4789 [24JN]

Motions

Political campaigns: prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (H.R. 5175), H4825 [24JN]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (S. 3628), S6191 [22JY]

Remarks in House

Elections: prohibit certain State election administration officials from actively participating in electoral campaigns (H.R. 512), H7145-H7148 [28SE]

Political campaigns: apply ban on contributions and expenditures by foreign nationals to domestic corporations in which foreign principals have an ownership interest and increase penalties for violators of such ban (H.R. 4517), H391 [27JA], H4800 [24JN]

———clarify that the ban on campaign expenditures by government contractors includes oil companies with Federal leases to drill in the Outer Continental Shelf, H4818-H4820 [24JN]

———eliminate limitations on Federal election campaign contributions, H4817, H4818 [24JN]

———exemptions granted to certain advocacy groups from spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections, H4802-H4805 [24JN]

———exemptions granted to certain groups from spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections, H4571 [16JN], H4618 [17JN]

———prohibit campaign contributions by lobbyists representing countries defined as state sponsors of terrorism or any other foreign national (H.R. 5609), H5336-H5342 [1JY]

———prohibit expenditures by corporations with significant foreign government ownership or cumulative majority ownership by foreign nationals, H4820-H4822 [24JN]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements for Federal elections (H.R. 5175), consideration (H. Res. 1468), H4784-H4794 [24JN]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (H.R. 5175), H3443 [13MY], H3756 [25MY], H3830 [26MY], H4571, H4578 [16JN], H4618 [17JN], H4681 [23JN], H4784, H4795-H4828 [24JN], H4913 [29JN], H5337-H5340 [1JY], H5524, H5533 [13JY], E1211 [25JN], E1218 [28JN], E1226, E1227, E1228, E1231 [29JN], E1236 [30JN]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (H.R. 5175), motion to recommit, H4826, H4827 [24JN]

———reform financing of House of Representatives elections (H.R. 1826), H363 [26JA], H4804 [24JN]

———require corporations to present disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections in a clear and conspicuous manner, H4816, H4817 [24JN]

———require the city and State of a political advertisement funder be included in the disclaimer notice, H4823 [24JN]

Remarks in Senate

Political campaigns: prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections, S2784 [29AP]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (H.R. 5175), S5383 [24JN], S5501 [28JN], S5503 [29JN]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (S. 3295), S3029-S3032 [3MY], S3628-S3632 [12MY]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (S. 3628), S6121 [21JY], S6131, S6191 [22JY], S7873 [15NO]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (S. 3628), motion to proceed, S6229-S6231, S6234-S6236 [26JY], S6266-S6268, S6270-S6285, S6288 [27JY], S7303-S7309, S7311-S7313, S7317-S7332, S7334, S7335, S7341-S7344 [22SE], S7367, S7383, S7385-S7388 [23SE]

———prohibit foreign influence, prevent Federal contractors from making expenditures, and establish additional spending disclosure requirements relative to Federal elections (S. 3628), unanimous-consent agreement, S7363 [22SE]

———protect Federal, State, and local elections from the influence of foreign nationals, S2785 [29AP]

———reform financing of House of Representatives elections (H.R. 158), S405 [2FE]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 5175, Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1468) (H. Rept. 111-511), H4778 [23JN]

Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act: Committee on House Administration (House) (H.R. 5175) (H. Rept. 111-492), H3822 [25MY]

Fair Elections Now Act: Committee on House Administration (House) (H.R. 6116) (H. Rept. 111-691), H8940 [21DE]

Summaries

Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act (S. 3295), S3030 [3MY]

Tables

Pay-as-you-go effects of H.R. 512, Federal Election Integrity Act, H7148, H7205 [28SE]

Texts of

H. Res. 1468, consideration of H.R. 5175, Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, H4784 [24JN]

H.R. 512, Federal Election Integrity Act, H7145 [28SE]

H.R. 5175, Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, H4806-H4816 [24JN]

H.R. 5609, prohibit political campaign contributions by lobbyists representing countries defined as state sponsors of terrorism or any other foreign national, H5336 [1JY]