HR 2565 · 104th Congress · Government Operations and Politics
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to ban activities of political action committees in House of Representatives elections and for other purposes.
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Introduced2
Committee3
House Vote4
Senate5
EnactedLatest: Referred to the House Committee on House Oversight.(1995-10-31)
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Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit any person other than an individual or a political committee from making contributions, soliciting or receiving contributions, or making expenditures for the purpose of influencing an election for Representative, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner to Congress (Representative). Deems any political committee established, financed, maintained, or controlled by a candidate or Federal office-holder to be an authorized committee of such individual. Prohibits any political committee that supports or has supported more than one candidate from being designated as an authorized committee, but permits a presidential candidate nominated by a political party to designate the national committee of such party as the candidate's principal campaign committee if that national committee maintains separate books of account with respect to its functions as a principal campaign committee. Sets forth rules applicable when the ban is not in effect. (Sec. 2) Prohibits a candidate for the office of Representative, with respect to a reporting period for an election, from accepting contributions from persons other than local individual residents tot…
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3 Republicans