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Operating accounts

By Robert Moore

Alaska, Michigan, Ohio and South Carolina all have unlimited donation limits

Excerpts from this story referencing "Federal Election Commission":

"… tes for federal office. The party committees are supposed to report to the Federal Election Commission all the money deposited into those federal accounts. The accounts are also …"

Federal Election Commission

By The Center for Public Integrity

How does the federal law stack up?

Excerpts from this story referencing "Federal Election Commission":

"… help candidates for Congress or the presidency —must be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).The Center surveyed the type of information political party committe …"

"… nd therefore must file electronically.State Secrets Disclosure Report Card:Federal Election CommissionSectionSection ScoreMaximum Section ScoreReporting Contributions1822Reporti …"

"… 1Are all contributions to a party committee required to be reported to the Federal Election Commission?All contributions are reported102What contributions must be itemized?Contr …"

"… all expenditures made by a party committee required to be reported to the Federal Election Commission?All expenditures are reported107What expenditures must be itemized?Itemiza …"

State parties collected nearly $570 million in contributions, soft money transfers in 2000

By John Dunbar, MaryJo Sylwester and Robert Moore

States used as a $263 million back door for soft money

Excerpts from this story referencing "Federal Election Commission":

"… this year, bans soft money contributions at the federal level.However, the Federal Election Commission is adopting rules that will allow members of Congress to raise soft money …"

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The dispersion of disclosure

By MaryJo Sylwester and Katy Lewis

States have inconsistant disclosure laws, incomplete records and barriers to easily obtaining financial records

Excerpts from this story referencing "Federal Election Commission":

"… state agencies. Comparing the state filings to information reported to the Federal Election Commission makes this clear.Reports that state parties filed in their states did not …"

State bans on soft money

By Eric Marx

Conn. is only state with campaign finance law similar to Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act

Excerpts from this story referencing "Federal Election Commission":

"… " (that is, the accounts that fall outside the regulatory authority of the Federal Election Commission) maintained by the half-dozen party committees of the national Democratic …"

Soft money primer

By John Dunbar

What you need to know about this form of political donation
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“McCain-Feingold” fails to solve campaign finance problem

By The Center for Public Integrity

New campaign reform act replaces the problem of unlimited "soft money" contributions with the problem on weakly regulated independent commit

Excerpts from this story referencing "Federal Election Commission":

"… Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth, and the MoveOn.org Voter Fund. The Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) slow, deliberative investigative process appeals to the independ …"

Paralysis at the Federal Election Commission

By The Center for Public Integrity

The FEC was unable to exercise meaningful control over the most expensive presidential election ever because it lacked a quorum

Excerpts from this story referencing "Federal Election Commission":

"… nate. …"

Lobbying the watchdogs

By Elizabeth Brown

Hundreds of companies push their agendas with the GAO, FEC and OGE

Excerpts from this story referencing "Federal Election Commission":

"… than 200 agencies lobbied during the past six years—agencies such as the Federal Election Commission, the Office of Government Ethics and the GAO, which serves as the investig …"

"… Draver said. "It can be helpful; more information is better than less."The Federal Election Commission, the office responsible for overseeing federal election laws, is also accu …"

Campaign Consultants methodology

By The Center for Public Integrity

How we did it: anatomy of an investigation

Excerpts from this story referencing "Federal Election Commission":

"… on political campaigns.These organizations, termed “committees” by the Federal Election Commission, exist for House, Senate and presidential candidates, as well as for polit …"

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