Comments Received - Notice of Public Hearing on Agency Procedures and Processes
The FEC held a broad ranging public hearing on January 14-15, 2009, where the Commission received comments on ways that it might improve its compliance and enforcement processes.
Click here for a copy of the hearing announcement, published in the Federal Register on December 8, 2008. Comments received in response to the notice of public hearing appear below, along with comments received during the post-hearing extended comment period. Supplemental information, statistics and other materials referenced in the hearing announcement have been placed online at http://www.fec.gov/law/policy/enforcement/publichearing011409.shtml.
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Comments Responding to Questions Contained in the Notice of Hearing (in alphabetical order)
- Joseph M. Birkenstock, Matthew T. Sanderson, Stacy Cline and Kristy Tsadick, Caplin and Drysdale [PDF; 4 pages]
- Edie Atkinson-Bukewihge [PDF; 2 pages]
- Whitney Wyatt Burns [PDF; 4 pages]
- Catholic Democrats Political Action Committee by William G. Roth [PDF; 2 pages]
- Center for Competitive Politics by Reid Alan Cox [PDF; 25 pages]
- Tim Cox [PDF; 1 page]
- Peter D'Errico, Initial Campaign Treasurer, Ed O'Reilly for Senate [PDF; 1 page]
- Department of Justice by Craig C. Donsanto, Director, Election Crimes Branch, Public Integrity Section [PDF; 13 pages]
- Laurence E. Gold, Lichtman, Trister and Ross, PLLC [PDF; 4 pages]
- James Madison Center for Free Speech by
James Bopp, Jr. [PDF; 66 pages]
- Robert K. Kelner, Covington and Burlington [PDF; 13 pages]
- David M. Mason [PDF; 7 pages]
- William J. McGinley [PDF; 1 pages]
- Cleta Mitchell, Foley and Lardner LLP [PDF; 6 pages]
- Lawrence H. Norton and James A. Kahl, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge and Rice, PLLC [PDF; 3 pages]
- OMBWatch by Amanda Adams and Lateefah Williams, Nonprofit Policy Analysts [PDF; 5 pages]
- Perkins Coie LLP, by Robert F. Bauer, Judith L. Corley, Marc E. Elias and Brian G. Svoboda [PDF; 8 pages]
- George Phillies [PDF; 1 page]
- Lillian Rodriguez, Patton Boggs [PDF; 1 page]
- Scott Thomas, Dickstein and Shapiro [PDF; 3 pages]
- The Sunlight Foundation, by Ellen S. Miller [PDF; 6 pages]
- Diane Valentino [PDF; 1 page]
- Virginia Red State by Jason Eugene Call [PDF; 1 page]
- Hans A. von Spakovsky [PDF; 8 pages]
- Wiley Rein LLP Election Law and Government Ethics Group, by Jan Witold Baran [PDF; 13 pages]
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Comments Received during Extended Comment Period (in alphabetical order)
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Comments Addressing Other Issues
- The Commission received a number of comments on issues other than those contained in the hearing notice. Those comments are available in an indexed PDF file. [6.5 MB] Additional comments received during the extended comment period are available in a separate indexed PDF file [3.8 MB].
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