Group to Submit Comments on Proposed FEC Rule Changes

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Coalition to Protect Nonprofit Advocacy have submitted comments to the Federal Election Commission registering the opposition of more than 600 nonprofit organizations across the nation to the FEC’s proposed new rules. The proposed changes would drastically curtail free speech for nonprofits and could bankrupt many of them.

Highlights of the comments include concerns that the proposed rules raise such profound restraints on First Amendment rights that the Congress – and not the FEC – is the proper body to consider these changes.

The Coalition also argues that the FEC should not rush in the middle of an election year to pass new rules that far exceed what Congress intended in passing the McCain-Feingold law and what the Supreme Court affirmed in upholding it in last year’s McConnell decision, which said the law did not apply to interest groups beyond political parties. Some of the members of the Coalition were strong supporters of the McCain-Feingold law.

Attached is a list of possible scenarios that could result if the proposed rules were implemented.

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