Electioneering Communications Rulemaking Comments (2007)
On September 4, 2007, the Commission issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
on Electioneering Communications. Comments
received in response to that notice appear below. For more information on
this rulemaking visit our Rulemakings page.
These documents are in PDF format which requires the free Acrobat Reader
available from Adobe Systems.
Comments on This Rulemaking
- AFL-CIO, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, National Education Association and Service Employees International Union/Laurence E. Gold, Lichtman, Trister & Ross, PLLC (23 pages)
- Alliance for Justice/Nan Aron (17 pages)
- American Association of Advertising Agencies, American Advertising Federation and Association of National Advertisers/James A. Kahl,
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLCs (11 pages)
- American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network/Mary P. Rouvelas (9 pages)
- American Taxpayers Alliance and Americans for Limited Government/Heidi K. Abegg,
Webster, Chamberlain & Bean (14 pages)
- Robert Bauer (Perkins Coie) and Campaign Legal Center (3 pages)
- Campaign Legal Center, Democracy 21, Brennan Center for Justice, Common Cause, League of Women Voters and U.S. PIRG/Donald J. Simon,
Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse,
Endreson & Perry, LLP (22 pages)
- Center for Competitive Politics/Steve Hoersting (8 pages)
- Chamber of Commerce of the United States/Steven J. Law (Chamber of Commerce) and Jan Witold Baran, Caleb P. Burns and Kevin J. Plummer, Wiley Rein LLP (26 pages)
- Citizens United/Michael Boos (26 pages)
- Common Cause/Ann Pearson, Public Citizen/Laura MacCleery, Craig Holman and Scott L. Nelson, and U.S. PIRG/Gary Kalman (15 pages)
- Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee/Brian G. Svoboda | Perkins Coie LLP (6 pages)
- Free Speech Coalition, Inc. and Free Speech Defense and Education Fund, Inc./Mark B. Weinberg, Weinberg and Jacobs, LLP and William J. Olson et. al., William J. Olson, PC (11 pages)
- Harmon, Curran, Spielberg and Eisenberg, LLP/Elizabeth Kingsley (4 pages)
- Rick Hasen, Professor, Loyola Law School and Richard Briffault, Professor, Columbia Law School (5 pages)
- Allison Hayward, Professor, George Mason University School of Law (5 pages)
- S.B. Hornik (1 page)
- Independent Sector/Patricia Read and Mary Coogan (6 pages)
- James Madison Center for Free Speech/James Bopp, Jr. and Richard E. Coleson (26 pages)
- U.S. Senators John McCain, Russell D. Feingold and Olympia Snowe and U.S. Representative Christopher Shays (6 pages)
- National Association of Realtors/Ralph W. Holmen (7 pages)
- OMB Watch/Kay Guinane (5 pages)
- Public Campaign/Nick Nyhart (2 pages)
- State of Washington Public Disclosure Commission/Vicki Rippie (3 pages)
- Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and the Media Institute/Robert M. O’Neil and
J. Joshua Wheeler (14 pages)