Arizona Republican Sen. Martha McSally has agreed to pay a fine of more than $23,000 to settle campaign finance violations from the 2014 election. The Federal Election Commission publicly disclosed the settlement this week.Source: Martha McSally fined $23,000 for 2014 campaign finance violations...
(AP Photo/John Locher) Deadlocked on a party-line vote, the Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint that Hillary Clinton’s campaign illegally coordinated with a super PAC during the 2016 presidential election cycle.Source: Republican FEC commissioners let Clinton campaign off the hook for super PAC coordination...
Rules Committee Chairman Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), whose panel has primary jurisdiction on the issue, indicated after the briefing that he would not take up election security legislation in his committee.Source: Senate passes bill making hacking voting systems a federal crime...
At issue is an investigation led by the Southern District of New York connected to Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer to Trump who is serving a three-year prison term in part for breaking campaign finance law.Source: Feds’ probe into Trump hush money payments is over, judge says...
Some Democrats with ambitions for the White House are finding that their most generous donors are their old campaign accounts, Federal Election Commission reports show.Source: Old Election Cash Gives New Life to Some Democratic Presidential Candidates...
Lawmakers from both parties had a clear message to Silicon Valley at a trio of Capitol Hill hearings on Tuesday: We don’t trust you. The gauntlet of grillings kicked off with Sen.Source: The Technology 202...
The New York Times reported on the current status of 2020 emocratic race.Source: Only 5 Dems Have the Money to Go Forward With Their 2020 Campaigns...
A federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss the campaign finance violation case against California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter. In San Diego federal court, US District Judge Thomas J.Source: Federal judge refuses to dismiss campaign finance violation case against Rep. Duncan Hunter...
A decade ago, Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation was looking for a short phrase to put before the following fact: “Of the 202 outside organizations spending money to influence the 2010 mid-term elections, just 93 of them have disclosed donors to Federal Election Commission” (FEC).Source: The Etymology of “Dark Money”...
That’s how Democrats in Congress are blasting the largest fine the federal government has ever imposed on a tech company for failing to uphold its promises to improve its privacy practices.Source: The Technology 202...
