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One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR 1) - opposed Sec. 70302 and 43201(c) - President Donald Trumps tax, immigration, energy, and health-care priorities legislation; Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Stop Trading Assets Benefitting Lawmakers Earnings while Governing Exotic and Novel Investments in the United States (STABLE Genius) Act (S 1803) - prohibits certain individuals from engaging in prohibited financial transactions;Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD); Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD); Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (TBD); American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); SWIFT Vote Act (TBD); Uncheck the Box Act (TBD); Expanding the VOTE Act (TBD); Sustaining our Democracy Act (TBD); Voter on the Move Registration Act (TBD); Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (TBD); Election Mail Act (TBD); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (TBD) ; Youth Voting Rights Act (TBD); Time off to Vote Act (TBD); Help America Run Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD); Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD). Bills to strengthen and reauthorize the House OCE, creating a Senate OCE, addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC, confirming qualified FEC commissioners, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum, opposing President Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency and potential conflicts of interest among its employees, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination, addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, oversight of the USPSs role in election mail and nominations to USPS board of governors, addressing rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration and security grants in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, overseeing the need for Congress to regulate AIs use in elections, as well as allow states to regulate AIs use in elections, and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
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H.R. 14/S. 2523 - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act - Updates the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and establishes new criteria for determining which states and political subdivisions must obtain preclearance before changes to voting practices may take effect H.R. 22/S. 128 - Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act - Requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections H.R. 51/S.51 - Washington, D.C. Admission Act - Provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union H.R. 253 - Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act - Restricts trading and ownership of covered financial instruments by Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents H.R. 396 - TRUST in Congress Act - Requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust H.R. 2476 - Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act - Treats political expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee H.R. 4511 - Uncheck the Box Act - Prohibits the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent H.R. 4786 - Honest Election and Campaign, No Gain Act - Requires authorized committees and leadership PACs of candidates for election for Federal office to disburse funds remaining unexpended after the date of the election involved H.R. 4881 - SWIFT Vote Act - Directs the Election Assistance Commission to make grants to States for procuring and maintaining electronic pollbooks with the capability of collecting and disseminating wait time information H.R. 4908 - Time Off to Vote Act - Provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections. H.R. 4909 - Voter on the Move Registration Act - Requires the inclusion of voter registration information with certain leases and vouchers for federally assisted rental housing and mortgage applications H.R. 4910 - Sustaining Our Democracy Act - Establishes a democracy advancement and innovation program to provide funding for election administration improvements H.R. 4911 - People Over Long Lines Act - Ensures that voters in elections for Federal office do not wait in long lines in order to vote H.R. 4912 - Help America Run Act - Provides for the treatment of payments for child care and other personal use services as an authorized campaign expenditure H.R. 4914 - Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections Act - Removes barriers to the ability of unhoused individuals to register to vote and vote in elections for Federal office H.R. 4915 - Election Mail Act - Improve procedures and requirements related to election mail. H.R. 4916 - Youth Voting Rights Act - Expands youth access to voting through methods like pre-registration and on-campus polling sites, and enforces the 26th Amendment H.R. 4917 - Expanding the VOTE Act - Gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more language translations of election materials H.R. 5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act - Prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks H.R. 5272 - Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act - Prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office H.R. 6589 - Ranked Choice Voting Act - Establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress H.R. 7060/S. 3646 - No Political Enemies Act - Stops the government from attacking individuals and organizations for their political speech or participation S. 1491 - SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act - Modifies the definition of special Government employee to prevent conflicts of interest S.1498 - Halting Ownership and Non-Ethical Stock Transactions (HONEST) Act - Prohibits transactions involving certain financial instruments by Members of Congress, the president, and vice president S. 1849 - Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act - Requires each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all of the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election S. 1850 - Close the Revolving Door Act - Provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying S. 2300 - Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act - Limits donations to Presidential Libraries and Centers S. 2838 - Protecting Our Democracy Act - Protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference S. 3191 - Stop Ballroom Bribery Act - Prevents corruption by appropriately limiting donations for any public property, building, or fixture at the White House, the Naval Observatory, or certain other public property, for events on such property, or for monuments to living current or former Presidents, current or former Vice Presidents, or current or former employees or officers appointed by the President H.R. TBD/S. TBD - Freedom to Vote Act - Comprehensive legislation to expand access to the ballot, promote fair redistricting, and reduce the influence of money in politics H.R. TBD/S. TBD - Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act - Comprehensive legislation to improve federal ethics, lobbying, and campaign finance laws across all three branches of government H.R. TBD/S. TBD - DISCLOSE Act - Provides for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, super PACs, and other entities spending in elections H.R. TBD/S. TBD - Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act - Prevents Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks H.R. TBD/S. TBD - Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act - Addresses financial conflicts of interest of the President and Vice President H.R. TBD - Political Accountability and Transparency Act - Applies the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, clarifies the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, and requires the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements H.R. TBD - Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act - Codifies the Office of Congressional Ethics Strengthening and codifying the House Office of Congressional Conduct Creating a Senate Office of Congressional Ethics Addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC Protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach Dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum Opposition to President Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship Opposition to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration The need to update and enhance the Voting Rights Act Addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch Updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading Redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination Addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs Prohibiting bad actors from assisting with illegal foreign spending in elections Funding for election administration and security grants in FY 26 appropriations process The need for Congress to regulate AIs use in elections, as well as allow states to regulate AIs use in elections Congressional safeguards against mass challenges to voters registration Ranked choice voting Defending existing campaign finance limits on political parties coordinated expenditures President Trumps federalization of the DC police force and deployment of the National Guard into the District DC statehood and the need to protect Home Rule National emergencies and elections Incumbent retirement and candidate filing laws Congressional oversight of the DHS SAVE system Congressional safeguards against election subversion
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No Censors on our Shores Act of 2025
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Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Original Students Voicing Opinions in Today’s Elections (VOTE) Act
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Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act. SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Original Students Voicing Opinions in Todays Elections (Student VOTE) Act (HR 126) - directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2025, to local educational agencies for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. Let America Vote Act (HR 155) - requires states to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections for federal office. It also restricts certain federal election funding for states that allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. CLEAN Elections Act (HR 158) - establishes requirements for nonpartisan redistricting. Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S 840) - hold accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information. Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD) Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD) Bill to codify presidential appointees ethics pledge and special government employee ethics; Congressional defense of DCs Ranked Choice Voting ballot Initiative (I83) under the Home Rule Act; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening and reauthorizing the House OCE; Supreme Court ethics reform; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform; Presidential Judicial Nominations; reform of Congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate -super PAC coordination; addressing trends at the FEC and Presidential EOs; Presidential EOs on Independent Agencies; omnibus ethics legislation; applicability of the Hatch Act; White House intervention with clemency process.
John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025
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Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act. SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Original Students Voicing Opinions in Todays Elections (Student VOTE) Act (HR 126) - directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2025, to local educational agencies for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. Let America Vote Act (HR 155) - requires states to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections for federal office. It also restricts certain federal election funding for states that allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. CLEAN Elections Act (HR 158) - establishes requirements for nonpartisan redistricting. Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S 840) - hold accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information. Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD) Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD) Bill to codify presidential appointees ethics pledge and special government employee ethics; Congressional defense of DCs Ranked Choice Voting ballot Initiative (I83) under the Home Rule Act; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening and reauthorizing the House OCE; Supreme Court ethics reform; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform; Presidential Judicial Nominations; reform of Congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate -super PAC coordination; addressing trends at the FEC and Presidential EOs; Presidential EOs on Independent Agencies; omnibus ethics legislation; applicability of the Hatch Act; White House intervention with clemency process.
Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act. SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Original Students Voicing Opinions in Todays Elections (Student VOTE) Act (HR 126) - directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2025, to local educational agencies for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. Let America Vote Act (HR 155) - requires states to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections for federal office. It also restricts certain federal election funding for states that allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. CLEAN Elections Act (HR 158) - establishes requirements for nonpartisan redistricting. Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S 840) - hold accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information. Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD) Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD) Bill to codify presidential appointees ethics pledge and special government employee ethics; Congressional defense of DCs Ranked Choice Voting ballot Initiative (I83) under the Home Rule Act; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening and reauthorizing the House OCE; Supreme Court ethics reform; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform; Presidential Judicial Nominations; reform of Congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate -super PAC coordination; addressing trends at the FEC and Presidential EOs; Presidential EOs on Independent Agencies; omnibus ethics legislation; applicability of the Hatch Act; White House intervention with clemency process.
Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act. SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Original Students Voicing Opinions in Todays Elections (Student VOTE) Act (HR 126) - directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2025, to local educational agencies for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. Let America Vote Act (HR 155) - requires states to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections for federal office. It also restricts certain federal election funding for states that allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. CLEAN Elections Act (HR 158) - establishes requirements for nonpartisan redistricting. Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S 840) - hold accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information. Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD) Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD) Bill to codify presidential appointees ethics pledge and special government employee ethics; Congressional defense of DCs Ranked Choice Voting ballot Initiative (I83) under the Home Rule Act; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening and reauthorizing the House OCE; Supreme Court ethics reform; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform; Presidential Judicial Nominations; reform of Congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate -super PAC coordination; addressing trends at the FEC and Presidential EOs; Presidential EOs on Independent Agencies; omnibus ethics legislation; applicability of the Hatch Act; White House intervention with clemency process.
Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act. SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Original Students Voicing Opinions in Todays Elections (Student VOTE) Act (HR 126) - directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2025, to local educational agencies for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. Let America Vote Act (HR 155) - requires states to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections for federal office. It also restricts certain federal election funding for states that allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. CLEAN Elections Act (HR 158) - establishes requirements for nonpartisan redistricting. Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S 840) - hold accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information. Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD) Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD) Bill to codify presidential appointees ethics pledge and special government employee ethics; Congressional defense of DCs Ranked Choice Voting ballot Initiative (I83) under the Home Rule Act; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening and reauthorizing the House OCE; Supreme Court ethics reform; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform; Presidential Judicial Nominations; reform of Congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate -super PAC coordination; addressing trends at the FEC and Presidential EOs; Presidential EOs on Independent Agencies; omnibus ethics legislation; applicability of the Hatch Act; White House intervention with clemency process.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR 1) - opposed Sec. 70302 and 43201(c) - President Donald Trumps tax, immigration, energy, and health-care priorities legislation; Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Stop Trading Assets Benefitting Lawmakers Earnings while Governing Exotic and Novel Investments in the United States (STABLE Genius) Act (S 1803) - prohibits certain individuals from engaging in prohibited financial transactions;Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD); Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD); Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (TBD); American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); SWIFT Vote Act (TBD); Uncheck the Box Act (TBD); Expanding the VOTE Act (TBD); Sustaining our Democracy Act (TBD); Voter on the Move Registration Act (TBD); Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (TBD); Election Mail Act (TBD); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (TBD) ; Youth Voting Rights Act (TBD); Time off to Vote Act (TBD); Help America Run Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD); Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD). Bills to strengthen and reauthorize the House OCE, creating a Senate OCE, addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC, confirming qualified FEC commissioners, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum, opposing President Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency and potential conflicts of interest among its employees, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination, addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, oversight of the USPSs role in election mail and nominations to USPS board of governors, addressing rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration and security grants in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, overseeing the need for Congress to regulate AIs use in elections, as well as allow states to regulate AIs use in elections, and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act. SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Original Students Voicing Opinions in Todays Elections (Student VOTE) Act (HR 126) - directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2025, to local educational agencies for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. Let America Vote Act (HR 155) - requires states to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections for federal office. It also restricts certain federal election funding for states that allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. CLEAN Elections Act (HR 158) - establishes requirements for nonpartisan redistricting. Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S 840) - hold accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information. Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD) Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD) Bill to codify presidential appointees ethics pledge and special government employee ethics; Congressional defense of DCs Ranked Choice Voting ballot Initiative (I83) under the Home Rule Act; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening and reauthorizing the House OCE; Supreme Court ethics reform; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform; Presidential Judicial Nominations; reform of Congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate -super PAC coordination; addressing trends at the FEC and Presidential EOs; Presidential EOs on Independent Agencies; omnibus ethics legislation; applicability of the Hatch Act; White House intervention with clemency process.
Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR 1) - opposed Sec. 70302 and 43201(c) - President Donald Trumps tax, immigration, energy, and health-care priorities legislation; Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Stop Trading Assets Benefitting Lawmakers Earnings while Governing Exotic and Novel Investments in the United States (STABLE Genius) Act (S 1803) - prohibits certain individuals from engaging in prohibited financial transactions;Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD); Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD); Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (TBD); American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); SWIFT Vote Act (TBD); Uncheck the Box Act (TBD); Expanding the VOTE Act (TBD); Sustaining our Democracy Act (TBD); Voter on the Move Registration Act (TBD); Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (TBD); Election Mail Act (TBD); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (TBD) ; Youth Voting Rights Act (TBD); Time off to Vote Act (TBD); Help America Run Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD); Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD). Bills to strengthen and reauthorize the House OCE, creating a Senate OCE, addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC, confirming qualified FEC commissioners, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum, opposing President Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency and potential conflicts of interest among its employees, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination, addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, oversight of the USPSs role in election mail and nominations to USPS board of governors, addressing rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration and security grants in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, overseeing the need for Congress to regulate AIs use in elections, as well as allow states to regulate AIs use in elections, and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
TRUST in Congress Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
TRUST in Congress Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR 1) - opposed Sec. 70302 and 43201(c) - President Donald Trumps tax, immigration, energy, and health-care priorities legislation; Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Stop Trading Assets Benefitting Lawmakers Earnings while Governing Exotic and Novel Investments in the United States (STABLE Genius) Act (S 1803) - prohibits certain individuals from engaging in prohibited financial transactions;Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD); Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD); Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (TBD); American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); SWIFT Vote Act (TBD); Uncheck the Box Act (TBD); Expanding the VOTE Act (TBD); Sustaining our Democracy Act (TBD); Voter on the Move Registration Act (TBD); Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (TBD); Election Mail Act (TBD); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (TBD) ; Youth Voting Rights Act (TBD); Time off to Vote Act (TBD); Help America Run Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD); Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD). Bills to strengthen and reauthorize the House OCE, creating a Senate OCE, addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC, confirming qualified FEC commissioners, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum, opposing President Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency and potential conflicts of interest among its employees, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination, addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, oversight of the USPSs role in election mail and nominations to USPS board of governors, addressing rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration and security grants in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, overseeing the need for Congress to regulate AIs use in elections, as well as allow states to regulate AIs use in elections, and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
TRUST in Congress Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act. SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Original Students Voicing Opinions in Todays Elections (Student VOTE) Act (HR 126) - directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2025, to local educational agencies for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. Let America Vote Act (HR 155) - requires states to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections for federal office. It also restricts certain federal election funding for states that allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. CLEAN Elections Act (HR 158) - establishes requirements for nonpartisan redistricting. Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S 840) - hold accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information. Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD) Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD) Bill to codify presidential appointees ethics pledge and special government employee ethics; Congressional defense of DCs Ranked Choice Voting ballot Initiative (I83) under the Home Rule Act; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening and reauthorizing the House OCE; Supreme Court ethics reform; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform; Presidential Judicial Nominations; reform of Congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate -super PAC coordination; addressing trends at the FEC and Presidential EOs; Presidential EOs on Independent Agencies; omnibus ethics legislation; applicability of the Hatch Act; White House intervention with clemency process.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Time Off to Vote Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Voters on the Move Registration Act of 2025
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Sustaining Our Democracy Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Help America Run Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Youth Voting Rights Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Expanding the VOTE Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Washington, D.C. Admission Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act. SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Original Students Voicing Opinions in Todays Elections (Student VOTE) Act (HR 126) - directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2025, to local educational agencies for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. Let America Vote Act (HR 155) - requires states to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections for federal office. It also restricts certain federal election funding for states that allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. CLEAN Elections Act (HR 158) - establishes requirements for nonpartisan redistricting. Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S 840) - hold accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information. Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD) Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD) Bill to codify presidential appointees ethics pledge and special government employee ethics; Congressional defense of DCs Ranked Choice Voting ballot Initiative (I83) under the Home Rule Act; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening and reauthorizing the House OCE; Supreme Court ethics reform; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform; Presidential Judicial Nominations; reform of Congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate -super PAC coordination; addressing trends at the FEC and Presidential EOs; Presidential EOs on Independent Agencies; omnibus ethics legislation; applicability of the Hatch Act; White House intervention with clemency process.
Washington, D.C. Admission Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR 1) - opposed Sec. 70302 and 43201(c) - President Donald Trumps tax, immigration, energy, and health-care priorities legislation; Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Stop Trading Assets Benefitting Lawmakers Earnings while Governing Exotic and Novel Investments in the United States (STABLE Genius) Act (S 1803) - prohibits certain individuals from engaging in prohibited financial transactions;Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD); Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD); Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (TBD); American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); SWIFT Vote Act (TBD); Uncheck the Box Act (TBD); Expanding the VOTE Act (TBD); Sustaining our Democracy Act (TBD); Voter on the Move Registration Act (TBD); Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (TBD); Election Mail Act (TBD); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (TBD) ; Youth Voting Rights Act (TBD); Time off to Vote Act (TBD); Help America Run Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD); Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD). Bills to strengthen and reauthorize the House OCE, creating a Senate OCE, addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC, confirming qualified FEC commissioners, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum, opposing President Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency and potential conflicts of interest among its employees, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination, addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, oversight of the USPSs role in election mail and nominations to USPS board of governors, addressing rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration and security grants in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, overseeing the need for Congress to regulate AIs use in elections, as well as allow states to regulate AIs use in elections, and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Restore Trust in Congress Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Climate Resilient Elections Act
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Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Reaffirming the principles of the United States Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same.
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Supporting the designation of September 2025 as "National Voting Rights Month".
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR 1) - opposed Sec. 70302 and 43201(c) - President Donald Trumps tax, immigration, energy, and health-care priorities legislation; Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Stop Trading Assets Benefitting Lawmakers Earnings while Governing Exotic and Novel Investments in the United States (STABLE Genius) Act (S 1803) - prohibits certain individuals from engaging in prohibited financial transactions;Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD); Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD); Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (TBD); American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); SWIFT Vote Act (TBD); Uncheck the Box Act (TBD); Expanding the VOTE Act (TBD); Sustaining our Democracy Act (TBD); Voter on the Move Registration Act (TBD); Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (TBD); Election Mail Act (TBD); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (TBD) ; Youth Voting Rights Act (TBD); Time off to Vote Act (TBD); Help America Run Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD); Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD). Bills to strengthen and reauthorize the House OCE, creating a Senate OCE, addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC, confirming qualified FEC commissioners, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum, opposing President Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency and potential conflicts of interest among its employees, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination, addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, oversight of the USPSs role in election mail and nominations to USPS board of governors, addressing rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration and security grants in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, overseeing the need for Congress to regulate AIs use in elections, as well as allow states to regulate AIs use in elections, and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Halting Ownership and Non-Ethical Stock Transactions (HONEST) Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR 1) - opposed Sec. 70302 and 43201(c) - President Donald Trumps tax, immigration, energy, and health-care priorities legislation; Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Stop Trading Assets Benefitting Lawmakers Earnings while Governing Exotic and Novel Investments in the United States (STABLE Genius) Act (S 1803) - prohibits certain individuals from engaging in prohibited financial transactions;Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD); Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD); Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (TBD); American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); SWIFT Vote Act (TBD); Uncheck the Box Act (TBD); Expanding the VOTE Act (TBD); Sustaining our Democracy Act (TBD); Voter on the Move Registration Act (TBD); Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (TBD); Election Mail Act (TBD); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (TBD) ; Youth Voting Rights Act (TBD); Time off to Vote Act (TBD); Help America Run Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD); Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD). Bills to strengthen and reauthorize the House OCE, creating a Senate OCE, addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC, confirming qualified FEC commissioners, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum, opposing President Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency and potential conflicts of interest among its employees, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination, addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, oversight of the USPSs role in election mail and nominations to USPS board of governors, addressing rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration and security grants in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, overseeing the need for Congress to regulate AIs use in elections, as well as allow states to regulate AIs use in elections, and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Close the Revolving Door Act of 2025
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Close the Revolving Door Act of 2025
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR 1) - opposed Sec. 70302 and 43201(c) - President Donald Trumps tax, immigration, energy, and health-care priorities legislation; Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Stop Trading Assets Benefitting Lawmakers Earnings while Governing Exotic and Novel Investments in the United States (STABLE Genius) Act (S 1803) - prohibits certain individuals from engaging in prohibited financial transactions;Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD); Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD); Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (TBD); American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); SWIFT Vote Act (TBD); Uncheck the Box Act (TBD); Expanding the VOTE Act (TBD); Sustaining our Democracy Act (TBD); Voter on the Move Registration Act (TBD); Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (TBD); Election Mail Act (TBD); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (TBD) ; Youth Voting Rights Act (TBD); Time off to Vote Act (TBD); Help America Run Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD); Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD). Bills to strengthen and reauthorize the House OCE, creating a Senate OCE, addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC, confirming qualified FEC commissioners, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum, opposing President Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency and potential conflicts of interest among its employees, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination, addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, oversight of the USPSs role in election mail and nominations to USPS board of governors, addressing rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration and security grants in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, overseeing the need for Congress to regulate AIs use in elections, as well as allow states to regulate AIs use in elections, and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
A bill to amend section 2112 of title 44, United States Code, to appropriately limit donations to Presidential Libraries and Centers.
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Protecting Our Democracy Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Washington, D.C. Admission Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR 1) - opposed Sec. 70302 and 43201(c) - President Donald Trumps tax, immigration, energy, and health-care priorities legislation; Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Stop Trading Assets Benefitting Lawmakers Earnings while Governing Exotic and Novel Investments in the United States (STABLE Genius) Act (S 1803) - prohibits certain individuals from engaging in prohibited financial transactions;Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD); Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD); Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (TBD); American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); SWIFT Vote Act (TBD); Uncheck the Box Act (TBD); Expanding the VOTE Act (TBD); Sustaining our Democracy Act (TBD); Voter on the Move Registration Act (TBD); Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (TBD); Election Mail Act (TBD); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (TBD) ; Youth Voting Rights Act (TBD); Time off to Vote Act (TBD); Help America Run Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD); Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD). Bills to strengthen and reauthorize the House OCE, creating a Senate OCE, addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC, confirming qualified FEC commissioners, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum, opposing President Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency and potential conflicts of interest among its employees, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination, addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, oversight of the USPSs role in election mail and nominations to USPS board of governors, addressing rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration and security grants in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, overseeing the need for Congress to regulate AIs use in elections, as well as allow states to regulate AIs use in elections, and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Washington, D.C. Admission Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Washington, D.C. Admission Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act. SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Original Students Voicing Opinions in Todays Elections (Student VOTE) Act (HR 126) - directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2025, to local educational agencies for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. Let America Vote Act (HR 155) - requires states to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections for federal office. It also restricts certain federal election funding for states that allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. CLEAN Elections Act (HR 158) - establishes requirements for nonpartisan redistricting. Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S 840) - hold accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information. Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD) Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD) Bill to codify presidential appointees ethics pledge and special government employee ethics; Congressional defense of DCs Ranked Choice Voting ballot Initiative (I83) under the Home Rule Act; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening and reauthorizing the House OCE; Supreme Court ethics reform; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform; Presidential Judicial Nominations; reform of Congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate -super PAC coordination; addressing trends at the FEC and Presidential EOs; Presidential EOs on Independent Agencies; omnibus ethics legislation; applicability of the Hatch Act; White House intervention with clemency process.
Digital Integrity in Democracy Act
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Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act. SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Original Students Voicing Opinions in Todays Elections (Student VOTE) Act (HR 126) - directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2025, to local educational agencies for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. Let America Vote Act (HR 155) - requires states to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections for federal office. It also restricts certain federal election funding for states that allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. CLEAN Elections Act (HR 158) - establishes requirements for nonpartisan redistricting. Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S 840) - hold accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information. Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD) Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD) Bill to codify presidential appointees ethics pledge and special government employee ethics; Congressional defense of DCs Ranked Choice Voting ballot Initiative (I83) under the Home Rule Act; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening and reauthorizing the House OCE; Supreme Court ethics reform; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform; Presidential Judicial Nominations; reform of Congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate -super PAC coordination; addressing trends at the FEC and Presidential EOs; Presidential EOs on Independent Agencies; omnibus ethics legislation; applicability of the Hatch Act; White House intervention with clemency process.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act of 2023
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act of 2023
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
TRUST in Congress Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
TRUST in Congress Act
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Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
Democracy Restoration Act of 2023
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Democracy Restoration Act of 2023
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
Democracy Restoration Act of 2023
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
Protecting Our Democracy Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Washington, D.C. Admission Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Washington, D.C. Admission Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
Washington, D.C. Admission Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Youth Voting Rights Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Measures Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Inclusive Democracy Act of 2023
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
Inclusive Democracy Act of 2023
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Inclusive Democracy Act of 2023
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
Inclusive Democracy Act of 2023
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Redistricting Transparency and Accountability Act of 2024
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
Judicial Integrity Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
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Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act of 2024
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act of 2024
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Ranked Choice Voting Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Ranked Choice Voting Act
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Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
Ending Trading and Holdings In Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Ending Trading and Holdings In Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
Ending Trading and Holdings In Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act
Client: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC. · Firm: CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER, INC.
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
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2025 · third_quarter · Q3
Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
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2025 · second_quarter · Q2
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR 1) - opposed Sec. 70302 and 43201(c) - President Donald Trumps tax, immigration, energy, and health-care priorities legislation; Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Stop Trading Assets Benefitting Lawmakers Earnings while Governing Exotic and Novel Investments in the United States (STABLE Genius) Act (S 1803) - prohibits certain individuals from engaging in prohibited financial transactions;Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD); Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD); Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (TBD); American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); SWIFT Vote Act (TBD); Uncheck the Box Act (TBD); Expanding the VOTE Act (TBD); Sustaining our Democracy Act (TBD); Voter on the Move Registration Act (TBD); Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (TBD); Election Mail Act (TBD); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (TBD) ; Youth Voting Rights Act (TBD); Time off to Vote Act (TBD); Help America Run Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD); Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD). Bills to strengthen and reauthorize the House OCE, creating a Senate OCE, addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC, confirming qualified FEC commissioners, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum, opposing President Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, oversight of the Department of Government Efficiency and potential conflicts of interest among its employees, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination, addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, oversight of the USPSs role in election mail and nominations to USPS board of governors, addressing rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration and security grants in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, overseeing the need for Congress to regulate AIs use in elections, as well as allow states to regulate AIs use in elections, and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
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2025 · first_quarter · Q1
Washington, DC Admissions Act (HR 51/S 51) - to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act. SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Original Students Voicing Opinions in Todays Elections (Student VOTE) Act (HR 126) - directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2025, to local educational agencies for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. Let America Vote Act (HR 155) - requires states to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in primary elections for federal office. It also restricts certain federal election funding for states that allow noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. CLEAN Elections Act (HR 158) - establishes requirements for nonpartisan redistricting. Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S 840) - hold accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information. Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee. DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD) Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD) Bill to codify presidential appointees ethics pledge and special government employee ethics; Congressional defense of DCs Ranked Choice Voting ballot Initiative (I83) under the Home Rule Act; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening and reauthorizing the House OCE; Supreme Court ethics reform; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform; Presidential Judicial Nominations; reform of Congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate -super PAC coordination; addressing trends at the FEC and Presidential EOs; Presidential EOs on Independent Agencies; omnibus ethics legislation; applicability of the Hatch Act; White House intervention with clemency process.
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
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2024 · fourth_quarter · Q4
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) prohibits contributions or donations by foreign nationals in connection with state or local ballot initiatives, referenda, or recall elections; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle); a bill to implement safeguards for mass challenges to voter registration; and the pending Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; preparing for the January 6th joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes from the 2024 election; addressing redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers; categorically banning the circumvention of campaign finance reporting requirements; requiring the reporting of campaign and PAC payments to sub vendors; prohibiting federal candidates and political party committees from soliciting soft money on behalf of ballot measure committees; providing statutory guidance regarding the conduct of joint fundraising committees; providing attorneys fees for private VRA lawsuits; reforming the Lobbying Disclosure Act; and Congressional defense of DCs RCV ballot initiative (Initiative 83) under the Home Rule Act.
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
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2024 · third_quarter · Q3
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770/H.R. 8384) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875/H.R. 8668) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897/H.R. 8353) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protects the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (S. 3844/H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R. 8281) amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office; Digital Integrity in Democracy Act (S. 4977) holds accountable operators of social media platforms that intentionally or knowingly host false election administration information; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. 9355) enacts House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law; Political Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 9392) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the restrictions on the use of campaign funds for personal use to the funds of leadership PACs and other political committees, to clarify the treatment of certain coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates, to require the sponsors of certain political advertisements to identify the source of funds used for the advertisements; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 9393) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Ranked Choice Voting Act (S. 5048/H.R. 9578) establishes the use of ranked choice voting in elections for the offices of Senator and Representative in Congress; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (H.R. 9589) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat expenditures as coordinated with a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a committee of a national, State, or local political party if the making of the expenditures is materially consistent with instructions, directions, guidance, and suggestions from such candidate or committee; AI Ads Act (H.R. 9639) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to clarify that the prohibition under such Act against the fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and the fraudulent solicitation of funds includes misrepresentation through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI); Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (S. 359) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; Government by the People Act (H.R. 8572) directs the Federal Election Commission to establish a program under which participating States shall provide individuals with vouchers which may be used to make contributions to candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish a program to provide small dollar financing for candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress. Legislation to be introduced including a bill that creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); Investigative Integrity Protection Act (Rep. Schiff); and a bill that addresses election subversion threats (Rep. Morelle). Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political advertisements, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, addressing the use of AI in election administration, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and mass voter challenges; creating a Senate OCE; strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; Supreme Court ethics reform; scam PACs; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; removing monetary barriers to voting for justice-involved voters; oversight of USPSs role and performance in timely delivering election mail; protecting election workers; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; pushing back on false claims of noncitizen voting; implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act; election certification issues at the state and local level; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; FEC administrative fines program; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; appropriations amendment on District of Columbias Rank Choice Voting; and Snyder SCOTUS decision and Chevron case.
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2024 · second_quarter · Q2
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51/ H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech; Fair and Impartial Redistricting for Meaningful and Accountable Political Systems (FAIR MAPS) Act (H.R. 7910) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by an independent redistricting commission; High Court Gift Ban Act (H.R. 8830) prohibits Federal judges from receiving gifts valued over $50 in an instance or $100 in the aggregate in a year from a source unless excepted: Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements; Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act (S. 3897) requires the Election Assistance Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence technologies; Fraudulent Artificial Intelligence Regulations (FAIR) Elections Act (S. 4714) prohibits the distribution of false AI-generated election media and to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit the removal of names from voting rolls using unverified voter challenge databases; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916/H.R. 8825) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office; Bills to be introduced including AI Ads Act (Rep. Schiff) strengthens FEC authority over AI campaign ads; redboxing bill (Rep. Tokuda); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (Rep. Porter) addresses FARA issues and foreign interference elections; Ranked Choice Voting Act (Rep. Raskin); scam PACs bill (Senator Welch); bill amends Section 230 to address election disinformation (Senator Welch); bill creates Senate OCE (Senator Warren); bill on foreign influence corporations political spending (Senator Bennet); Miscellaneous topics discussed with Hill offices including state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; scam PACS; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; prohibiting political donations to PACs from being used on legal fees; addressing deregulatory trends at the FEC; addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs; amending Section 230 to address election disinformation; expanding FOIA to the judiciary; Fiscal Year 2025 funding for election administration; and protecting election workers.
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2024 · first_quarter · Q1
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4/H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. 7095) requires States to carry out congressional redistricting in accordance with a process under which members of the public are informed of redistricting proposals and have the opportunity to participate in the development of such proposals prior to their adoption, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (H.R. 2599/486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to Americas Elections Act (H.R. 7497) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Judicial Integrity Act (H.R. 7676) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests; Uncheck the Box Act (H.R. 7723) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the solicitation and acceptance of a recurring contribution or donation in a campaign for election for Federal office by any method which does not require the contributor or donor to give affirmative consent to making the contribution or donation on a recurring basis, and for other purposes; End Tax Breaks for Dark Money Act (S. 3743) amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations; Redistricting Reform Act (S.3750) reforms the congressional redistricting process, and for other purposes; AI Transparency in Elections Act (S. 3875) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Time Off To Vote Act (S. 3901) provides employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections; Right to Vote Act (S. 3916) protecting the right to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (H.R. TBD); FAIR MAPS Act (H.R. TBD); Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. TBD); Securing Election Professionals Resource Act (H.R. TBD); Next Step Home Act (S.TBD); Scam PACs; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, preventing AI-assisted voter intimidation and addressing the use of AI in election administration;creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations;limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections;mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions;banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives;oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote;prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions;reform of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Judicial gift rules;redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination;categorically prohibiting the structuring of transactions to evade campaign finance disclosure;closing loopholes in subvendor campaign finance reporting rules; providing attorneys fees in VRA cases;preventing bans on food and water donations at polling locations;and protecting election workers.
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2023 · fourth_quarter · Q4
Inclusive Democracy Act (S. 3423/H.R. 6643) guarantees the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense; Youth Voting Rights Act (S. 2985/H.R. 5293) expands youth access to voting; Stop Foreign Interference in Ballot Initiatives Act (H.R. 6471) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda and recall elections; Ending Corporate Influence on Elections Act (S. 3173) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by publicly traded corporations; Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act (S. 359/H.R. 926) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for other purposes; Supreme Court Ethics Act (S. 325/H.R. 927) amends title 28, provide for a code of conduct for justices and judges of the courts of the United States, establish an ethics investigations counsel, and require disclosure of recusals; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Support Our Election Workers Act (S. 1609/H.R. 3436) directs the Election Assistance Commission to establish a program to make grants to States to provide increased pay for election workers, and for other purposes; Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act (S. 1908/H.R. 3973) establishes judicial ethics; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; REAL Political Ads Act (S. 1596/H.R. 3044) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency and accountability for the use of content that is generated by artificial intelligence (generative AI) in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections Act (H.R. 5294) removes barriers to the ability of unhoused individuals to register to vote and vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Stop Scam PACs Act (H.R. 6894) on scam PACs amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the misrepresentation of actions on behalf of candidates, political parties, and political committees and organizations; SCAM PAC Act (H.R. 6893) prohibits the disbursement of funds to entities owned or controlled by individuals with executive or managerial authority over the operations of political committees; Jumpstarting Accountability Relating to Ethical Disclosures Act (H.R. TBD); Stopping Hidden Interests and Non-disclosure in Elections (SHINE) Act (H.R. TBD); Protecting Americans Contributions from Scams and Fraudulent Entreaties Act (S. TBD); Redistricting Transparency Act (H.R. TBD); National Voter Registration Act (S. TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (S. TBD/H.R. TBD) - an omnibus anti-corruption act); scam PACS; funding for election administration; state implementation of ECRA; updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading; voting rights for unhoused voters; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections, and addressing the use of AI in election administration; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; banning foreign spending on state and local ballot initiatives; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; FEC reform; and protecting election workers.
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2023 · third_quarter · Q3
Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act (S. 359/H.R. 926) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for other purposes; Supreme Court Ethics Act (S. 325/H.R. 927) amends title 28, provide for a code of conduct for justices and judges of the courts of the United States, establish an ethics investigations counsel, and require disclosure of recusals; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; Support Our Election Workers Act (S. 1609/H.R. 3436) directs the Election Assistance Commission to establish a program to make grants to States to provide increased pay for election workers, and for other purposes; Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act (S. 1908/H.R. 3973) establishes judicial ethics; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677/H.R. 4987) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; REAL Political Ads Act (S. 1596/H.R. 3044) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency and accountability for the use of content that is generated by artificial intelligence (generative AI) in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5048) protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference, and for other purposes; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 1/H.R. 11) expands Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 14) amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (H.R. 4563) promotes election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S. 1171/H.R. 2678) amends chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S. 2770) prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates for Federal office, and for other purposes; Preventing Election Subversion Act (S. 2575) amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to provide increased protections for election workers and voters in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections Act (H.R. 5294) removes barriers to the ability of unhoused individuals to register to vote and vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; Executive Branch Accountability and Transparency Act (S. 2270/H.R. 3642) establishes and maintains a database within each agency for executive branch ethics records of noncareer appointees; Stop Scam PACs Act (H.R. TBD) on scam PACs; SCAM PAC Act (H.R. TBD) on scam PACs; Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (S. TBD/H.R. TBD) - an omnibus anti-corruption act); voting rights for unhoused voters; AI and elections including disclaimers for AI generated political ads, prohibiting deceptive AI-generated political communications, regulating AI-powered bots in campaigns, enhancing the FECs authority to address AIs usage in elections; creating a Senate OCE, Supreme Court ethics reform and strengthening the House OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; redboxing and candidate-super PAC coordination; prohibiting assistance to foreign nationals making illegal contributions; limiting foreign influenced corporations spending on elections; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; oversight of Bureau of Prisons policies for allowing incarcerated individuals to vote; FEC reform; and protecting election workers.
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2023 · second_quarter · Q2
Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act (S. 359/H.R. 936) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for other purposes; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes;; Washington DC Admission Act (S. 51/H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (S. 486/H.R. 2599) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; Honest Election and Campaign/No Gain Act (H.R. 2484) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require authorized committees and leadership PACs of candidates for election for Federal office to disburse funds remaining unexpended after the date of the election involved, and for other purposes; Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act (S. 1487/H.R. 3130) enhances protections for election records; Support Our Election Workers Act (S. 1609/H.R. 3436) directs the Election Assistance Commission to establish a program to make grants to States to provide increased pay for election workers, and for other purposes; Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act (S. 1908/H.R. 3973) establishes judicial ethics; Justice is BLIND Act (H.R. 3534) requires justices, judges, magistrate judges, or bankruptcy judges and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into qualified blind trusts, and for other purposes; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (H.R. 3003) amends title 5, United States Code, to restrict trading and ownership of certain financial instruments by Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents, and for other purposes; Democracy Restoration Act (S. 1677) secures the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration; REAL Political Ads Act (S. 1596/H.R. 3044) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency and accountability for the use of content that is generated by artificial intelligence (generative AI) in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 1318) provides enhanced protections for election workers; Protect Our Democracy Act; foreign money donations/dark money in political campaigns; Independent State Legislature Theory; Freedom to Vote Act; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act; Cleaning Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act; Stock Act 2.0; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act; voting rights for unhoused voters; Executive branch agency implementation of President Bidens voting rights and ethics Executive Orders; regulating AI generated political communications; FEC reform; creating a Senate OCE; Ethics in Government Act; funding for election administration; voter registration at naturalization ceremonies; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; restricting political contributions to only voters eligible to vote for the candidate; donor to ambassadors pipeline; Electoral Count Reform Act; preventing foreign interference in elections through campaign finance system strengthening OCEs ability to conduct independent ethics investigations; and protection election workers.
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2023 · first_quarter · Q1
Joint Resolution (H.J. RES. 13) proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections and to enact public financing systems for political campaigns; Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act (S. 359/H.R. 936) amends title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for other purposes; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 345) requires Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; HUMBLE Act (H.R. 507) amends title 18, United States Code, to prohibit former Members and elected officers of Congress from lobbying Congress at any time after leaving office, to prohibit the use of funds for official travel expenses of Members of Congress and legislative branch employees for airline accommodations other than coach-class, to reduce the pay of Members of the House of Representatives if a Speaker is not elected on the first day of a Congress, and for other purposes; Washington DC Admission Act (S. 51/H.R. 51) provides for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; DISCLOSE Act (S. 512/H.R. 1118) amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Honest Ads Act (S. 486) enhances transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public, and for other purposes; cryptocurrency; foreign money donations/dark money in political campaigns; Independent State Legislature Theory; spending and lobbying transparency; redboxing and campaign coordination; Freedom to Vote Act; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act; mandatory disgorgement of illegal contributions; voting rights for unhoused voters; Honest Election and Campaign/No Gain Act; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act; Tennessee expulsions/democracy; Supreme Court ethics and ethics related Executive Orders.
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2022 · fourth_quarter · Q4
John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4/S. 4) provisions to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51/S. 51) provisions to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; Freedom to Vote Act (H.R. 5746/S. 2747) provisions to expand Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act (S.3494), TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 336), and other Stock Act revision proposals including provisions to revise the Stock Act to require Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents to place certain assets into blind trusts; DISCLOSE Act (H.R. 1334/S. 443/S. 4822) provisions to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to America's Elections Act (H.R. 1414/S. 416) provisions to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (H.R. 2617) provisions to make consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, and for providing emergency assistance for the situation in Ukraine; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5314/S. 2921) provisions to protect our democracy by preventing abuses of presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference, and for other purposes; Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (H.R. 7647/S. 4188) provisions to amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for other purposes; Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act (H.R. 7706/S. 4177) provisions to establish judicial ethics; Youth Voting Rights Act (H.R. 8341/S. 4500) provisions to expand youth access to voting, and for other purposes; Expanding the Voluntary Opportunities for Translations in Elections (VOTE) Act (H.R. 8770) provisions to modify certain notice requirements, to study certain election requirements, and to clarify certain election requirements; Presidential Election Reform Act (H.R. 8873), Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act (H.R. 8824/H.R. 8826/S. 4573) provisions to reform the Electoral Count Act, and to amend the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 to provide clear guidelines for when and to whom resources are provided by the Administrator of General Services for use in connection with the preparations for the assumption of official duties as President or Vice President; Easy to Read Electronic and Accessible Disclosures (READ) Act (H.R. 8927) provisions to amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require the electronic filing of all public financial disclosure forms; Combatting Financial Conflicts of Interest in Government Act (H.R. 8990) provisions to amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to restrict trading and ownership of covered investments by senior government officials; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (S. 4239) provisions to bill to establish a democracy advancement and innovation program; Stop Automatically Voiding Eligible Voters Off Their Enlisted Rolls in States (SAVE VOTERS) Act (S. 4886) provisions to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to clarify that a State may not use an individual's failure to vote as the basis for initiating the procedures provided under such Act for the removal of the individual from the official list of registered voters in the State on the grounds that the individual has changed residence; Same Day Registration Act (S. 4887) provisions to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to provide for same day voter registration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 4920) provisions to provide enhanced protections for election workers; Honest Ads Act (S. 5054) provisions to enhance transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public; funding appropriations bills for election administration, election security and vote.gov modernization; January 6th Committee investigation; mandatory disgorgement of illegal campaign contribution; Independent state legislature theory case at Supreme Court; judicial ethics generally and Supreme Court Ethics specifically; reauthorization of the Office of Congressional Ethics.
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2022 · third_quarter · Q3
Freedom to Vote Act (H.R. 5746/S. 2747) provisions to expand Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act (S.3494), TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 336), and other Stock Act revision proposals including provisions to revise the Stock Act to require Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents to place certain assets into blind trusts; DISCLOSE Act (H.R. 1334/S. 443/S. 4822) provisions to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to America's Elections Act (H.R. 1414/S. 416) provisions to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5314/S. 2921) provisions to protect our democracy by preventing abuses of presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference, and for other purposes; 21st Century Courts Act (H.R. 7426/S.4010) provisions to amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of a code of conduct for the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for other purposes; Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (H.R. 7647/S. 4188) provisions to amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for other purposes; Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act (H.R. 7706/S. 4177) provisions to establish judicial ethics; On the Clock Act (H.R. 8089) provisions to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit Members of Congress from making direct and personal solicitations of campaign funds when Congress is in session; Youth Voting Rights Act (H.R. 8341/S. 4500) provisions to expand youth access to voting, and for other purposes; Expanding the Voluntary Opportunities for Translations in Elections (VOTE) Act (H.R. 8700) provisions to modify certain notice requirements, to study certain election requirements, and to clarify certain election requirements; Presidential Election Reform Act (H.R. 8873), Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act (H.R. 8824/H.R. 8826/S. 4573) provisions to reform the Electoral Count Act, and to amend the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 to provide clear guidelines for when and to whom resources are provided by the Administrator of General Services for use in connection with the preparations for the assumption of official duties as President or Vice President; Easy to Read Electronic and Accessible Disclosures (READ) Act (H.R. 8927) provisions to amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require the electronic filing of all public financial disclosure forms; Combatting Financial Conflicts of Interest in Government Act (H.R. 8990) provisions to amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to restrict trading and ownership of covered investments by senior government officials; Transparency in Taxpayer Funded Travel Act (H. Res. 1211) provisions to require Members of the House of Representatives whose Members' Representational Allowance is used to pay expenses incurred for official travel to provide the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives with detailed information on the travel; Stop Automatically Voiding Eligible Voters Off Their Enlisted Rolls in States (SAVE VOTERS) Act (S. 4886) provisions to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to clarify that a State may not use an individual's failure to vote as the basis for initiating the procedures provided under such Act for the removal of the individual from the official list of registered voters in the State on the grounds that the individual has changed residence; Same Day Registration Act (S. 4887) provisions to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to provide for same day voter registration; Election Worker Protection Act (S. 4920) provisions to provide enhanced protections for election workers; Honest Ads Act (S. 5054) provisions to enhance transparency and accountability for online political advertisements by requiring those who purchase and publish such ads to disclose information about the advertisements to the public; funding for appropriations for election administration and vote.gov modernization; January 6th Committee investigation; and FEC Dara Lindenbaum nomination.
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2022 · second_quarter · Q2
Freedom to Vote Act (H.R. 5746/S. 2747) provisions to expand Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4/S. 4) provisions to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act (S.3494), TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 336), and other Stock Act revision proposals including provisions to revise the Stock Act to require Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents to place certain assets into blind trusts; DISCLOSE Act (H.R. 1334/S. 443) provisions to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; Restoring Integrity to America's Elections Act (H.R. 1414/S. 416) provisions to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the number of members of the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5, to revise the method of selection and terms of service of members of the Commission, to distribute the powers of the Commission between the Chair and the remaining members, and for other purposes; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5314/S. 2921) provisions to protect our democracy by preventing abuses of presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference, and for other purposes; 21st Century Courts Act (H.R. 7426/S.4010) provisions to amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of a code of conduct for the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for other purposes; Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (H.R. 7647) provisions to amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for other purposes; Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act (H.R. 7706/S. 4177) provisions to establish judicial ethics; Youth Voting Rights Act (H.R. 8341/S. 4500) provisions to expand youth access to voting, and for other purposes; Sustaining our Democracy Act (S. 4239) provisions to establish a democracy advancement and innovation program, and for other purposes; Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (S. 5070) provisions to improve the anti-corruption and public integrity laws, and for other purposes; Electoral Count Act update proposals; and Independent State Legislative Theory proposal.
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2022 · first_quarter · Q1
Freedom to Vote Act (S. 2747) provisions to expand Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4/S. 4) provisions to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence After Elections Act (S. 3165) provisions to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all of the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Vote Without Fear Act (HR 4722) provisions to prohibit the unauthorized possession of a firearm at a Federal election site; Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act (S.3494), TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 336), and other Stock Act revision proposals including provisions to revise the Stock Act to require Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents to place certain assets into blind trusts; and Electoral Count Act update proposals.
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
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2021 · fourth_quarter · Q4
For the People Act (H.R. 1/S. 1/S.2093) provisions related to democracy issues including voter access, election integrity and security, political spending and ethics for the three branches of government; Review of Office of Congressional Ethics and reform of Senate ethics oversight; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 2747) provisions to expand Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 336) provisions to require Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4/S. 4) provisions to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5314/S.2921) provisions to protect our democracy by preventing abuses of presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Native American Voting Rights Act (H.R. 5008/S. 2702) provisions to protect the voting rights of Native American and Alaska Native voters; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence After Elections Act (S. 3165) provisions to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all of the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Vote Without Fear Act (HR 4722) provisions to prohibit the unauthorized possession of a firearm at a Federal election site; Stock Act revision proposal and Electoral Count Act update proposal.
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2021 · third_quarter · Q3
For the People Act (H.R. 1/S. 1/S.2093) provisions related to democracy issues including voter access, election integrity and security, political spending and ethics for the three branches of government; Review of Office of Congressional Ethics and reform of Senate ethics oversight; Foreign Political Influence Elimination Act (H.R. 4847/S. 1724) provisions to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain foreign-owned corporations and business organizations as foreign nationals for purposes of the ban on campaign activity, to prohibit foreign-affiliated section 501(c)(4) organizations from making contributions to super PACs or disbursing funds for independent expenditures or electioneering communications, to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to reform the procedures for the registration of agents of foreign principals under such Act; Freedom to Vote Act (S. 2747) provisions to expand Americans' access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes; TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 336) provisions to require Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts; John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4/S. 4) provisions to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 5314/S.2921) provisions to protect our democracy by preventing abuses of presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Electoral Count Act update proposal; jail voting legislative proposal.
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2021 · second_quarter · Q2
For the People Act (H.R. 1/S. 1/S.2093) provisions related to democracy issues including voter access, election integrity and security, political spending and ethics for the three branches of government; Review of Office of Congressional Ethics and reform of Senate ethics oversight; Hearing on Supreme Court Fact-Finding and the Distortion of American Democracy, Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action,& Federal Rights (April 27, 2021); Hearing on Voting In America: The Potential For Polling Place Quality And Restrictions On Opportunities To Vote To Interfere With Free And Fair Access To The Ballot before the House Administration Committee (June 11, 2021); Washington, D.C. Admissions Act (H.R. 51/S. 51) provisions to provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union; S. 1260 provisions to modify requirements under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938; Electoral Count Act modernization proposal.
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
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2021 · first_quarter · Q1
For the People Act (H.R. 1/S. 1) provisions related to democracy issues including voter access, election integrity and security, political spending and ethics for the three branches of government; The Foreign Agent Disclaimer Enhancement Act (H.R. 337) provisions related to materials posted online platforms by agents of foreign principals; The TRUST in Congress Act (H.R. 336) provisions related to requiring Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts; The REFUSE Act (H.R. 1516) provisions related to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with State or local ballot initiatives or referenda; The PLUM Act (H.R. 2043) provisions related to title 5, United States Code, to require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to establish and maintain a public directory of the individuals occupying Government policy and supporting positions; The DISCLOSE Act (H.R. 1334/S. 443) provisions related to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities; Review of Office of Ethics Commission and reform of Senate ethics oversight; Oversight hearing on United States Postal Service.
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
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2020 · fourth_quarter · Q4
The Foreign Agent Disclaimer Enhancement Act (S. 1762/H.R. 8464) provisions related to materials posted on online platforms by agents of foreign principals; For the People Act (H.R.1) provisions related to democracy issues including voter access, election integrity and security, political spending and ethics for the 3 branches of government; The Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections Act (S. 5028) provisions related to candidate fund disbursement following an election; the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4) provisions related to strengthening the Voting Rights Act following SCOTUS Shelby decision; S. 5070 provisions related to improving the anti-corruption and public integrity laws; H.R. 8718 provisions related to extending the statute of limitations for offenses under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971; The Duty to Refuse and Report Foreign Interference in American Elections Act of 2019 (HR 2353) provisions related to prohibiting campaigns from accepting foreign assistance and requiring campaign reporting; Oversight on Federal Election Commission commissioners; Nominations for FEC of Shana Broussard, Sean Cooksey and Allen Dickerson; Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett for the US Supreme Court; Review of campaign finance reform; Review of USTR ethics protocols; and Reform of House ethics oversight.
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2020 · third_quarter · Q3
The Foreign Agent Disclaimer Enhancement Act (S. 1762/H.R. 8464) provisions related to materials posted on online platforms by agents of foreign principals; the Judicial Ads Act (S. 4183) provisions related to requiring organizations to file statements disclosing donors to FEC; For the People Act (H.R.1) provisions related to democracy issues including voter access, election integrity and security, political spending and ethics for the 3 branches of government; Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 8363) provisions related to protecting our democracy by preventing presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending against foreign interference; Oversight on Federal Judge appointments; Review of campaign finance reform; Question preparation for House 2020 Election Preparations hearing, House Attorney General Barr hearing, and House USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy hearing; and ethics oversight and Hatch Act enforcement.
The HEROES Act (H.R. 6800), provisions related to funding for elections during COVID- 19 pandemic
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2020 · second_quarter · Q2
H.R. 748, CARES Act, provisions related to funding for elections during COVID- 19 pandemic
Nomination of Trey Trainor to serve on the Federal Election Commission; Ethics oversight of USTR; Securing Inspector General Independence Act (S. 3994); the Foreign Agent Disclaimer Enhancement Act (S. 1762); The Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust (TRUST) in Congress Act of 2020 (H.R. 7200); Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51); and the Judicial Ads Act (S. 4183).
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
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2020 · first_quarter · Q1
HR 748, CARES Act, provisions related to funding for elections during COVID- 19 pandemic.
Lobbied on nomination of Trey Trainor to serve on the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
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2019 · fourth_quarter · Q4
Campaign Finance, Money in Politics, Ethics, Voting Rights, Redistricting, Disclosure, Democracy
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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2019 · third_quarter · Q3
Campaign Finance, Money in Politics, Ethics, Voting Rights, Redistricting, Disclosure, Democracy
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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2019 · third_quarter · RA
Campaign Finance, Ethics, Voting Rights and Redistricting
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
COVID Stimulus Bill (H.R. 6201), provisions related to funding for elections during COVID- 19 pandemic; Oversight on H. Appropriations to urge Senate to include House passed $19.1 m for U.S. Election Assistance Commission; Oversight on 3 legacy riders on FY 2021 FSGG Appropriations urging removal of riders related to SEC requirements, IRS definitions and Federal Contractors rules.
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE