FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION

Bills and resolutions

Elections: require disclosure of contributions and expenditures for independent Federal election-related activity (see S. 791), S2896 [23AP]

Financial services and general Government: making appropriations (see S. 1371), S5968 [25JY] (see H.R. 2786), H4978 [23JY]

Political campaigns: establish and operate a website for the public to view the contents of political advertisements and require sponsors of advertisements to furnish such contents (see H.R. 648), H500 [13FE]

——— extend authority to impose civil money penalties on the basis of a schedule of established and published penalties and expand such authority to certain other violations (see H.R. 3487), H7109 [14NO]

——— limit expenditures in elections for the House of Representatives (see H.R. 1681), H2246 [23AP]

——— permit candidates for Federal office to designate an individual authorized to disburse funds from the candidate’s campaign committees in the event of the death of the candidate (see H.R. 186), H51 [4JA]

——— prohibit contributions and expenditures by multicandidate political committees controlled by foreign-owned corporations (see H.R. 195), H52 [4JA]

——— provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (see H.R. 148), H32 [3JA]

——— reassert congressional authority to restrict spending by corporations and labor organizations on campaigns for elections for Federal office (see H.R. 1338), H1822 [21MR]

——— reform financing of House of Representatives elections (see H.R. 269), H169 [15JA]

——— require corporations and labor organizations to disclose to shareholders and or members amounts disbursed for certain political activity (see H.R. 2670), H4482 [11JY]

Senate: require candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form (see S. 375), S813 [25FE]

Letters

Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC on corporate political contributions used for political speech: several Maryland legislators, E456 [15AP]

Remarks in House

Financial services and general Government: making appropriations, H5777 [20SE], H6077 [1OC]

Political campaigns: extend authority to impose civil money penalties on the basis of a schedule of established and published penalties and expand such authority to certain other violations (H.R. 3487), H7163, H7164 [18NO]

Supreme Court: constitutional amendment to overturn decision in Citizens United v. FEC on corporate political contributions used for political speech, H10, H15, H17 [3JA]

——— decision in Citizens United v. FEC on corporate political contributions used for political speech, H631 [26FE], E456 [15AP]

——— hearing of arguments in McCutcheon v. FEC on contribution limits for individual political campaign donors, H6359, H6360 [8OC]

Remarks in Senate

Political campaigns: extend authority to impose civil money penalties on the basis of a schedule of established and published penalties and expand such authority to certain other violations (H.R. 3487), S9111 [20DE]

——— provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (H.R. 148), S3546 [16MY]

Presidential appointments: nominations considered and confirmed en bloc, S6674 [23SE]

Reports filed

Financial Services and General Government Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (House) (H.R. 2786) (H. Rept. 113–172), H4978 [23JY]

——— Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (S. 1371) (S. Rept. 113–80), S5968 [25JY]

Nomination of Ann M. Ravel to the FEC: Committee on Rules and Administration (Senate), S6518 [17SE]

Nomination of Lee E. Goodman to the FEC: Committee on Rules and Administration (Senate), S6518 [17SE]

Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act: Committee on Rules and Administration (Senate) (S. 375), S5907 [24JY]

Texts of

H.R. 3487, FEC authority to impose civil money penalties on the basis of a schedule of established and published penalties extension and expand such authority to certain other violations, H7163 [18NO]