Empowering Citizens Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Empowering Citizens Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to revise the public financing system for presidential primary and general elections occurring after January 1, 2018, and to establish a system of public financing of congressional elections. With respect to presidential primary elections, the bill: increases the amount of matching payments from a one-to-one to a six-to-one match for contributions by individuals of $200 or less; limits aggregate contributions to publicly-financed candidates to $1,000; establishes a $300 million limit on payments to publicly-financed candidates; requires primary candidates to certify that they have received matching contributions exceeding $25,000 (currently, $5,000) in each of 20 states, based on individual contributions not exceeding $200; prohibits a candidate and the candidate's authorized committee from accepting bundled contributions; requires publicly-financed candidates nominated for the office of President to apply for and accept payments under the general election financing system; and eliminates the expenditure limitation for candidates under the FECA. With respect to pr…