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  <title><![CDATA[
Best Efforts in Administrative Fines Challenges ]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2006-12-08-E6-20735</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ The Federal Election Commission seeks public comment on 
proposed revisions to its regulations regarding the Commission's 
administrative fines program. The administrative fines program is a 
streamlined process through which the Commission finds and penalizes 
violations of 2 U.S.C. 434(a), which requires committees registered 
with the Commission to file periodic reports. Current Commission 
regulations set forth several grounds upon which a respondent may base 
a challenge to an administrative fine. The proposed regulations replace 
the current ``extraordinary circumstances'' defense with a ``best 
efforts'' defense. The proposed regulations would also provide for 
Commission statements of reasons on administrative fines final 
determinations. The Commission has made no final decision on the issues 
presented in this rulemaking. Further information is provided in the 
supplementary information that follows.
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  <pubDate>Fri, Dec 8 2006 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Proposed Policy Regarding Self-Reporting of Campaign Finance  Violations; (Sua Sponte Submissions)]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2006-12-08-E6-20845</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ The Commission is seeking comments on a proposed policy 
statement to clarify and memorialize its approach to enforcement 
actions arising from selfreported violations (also known as sua sponte 
submissions). In order to encourage the selfreporting of violations 
about which the Commission would not otherwise have learned, the 
Commission proposes, in appropriate cases warranting such mitigation, 
to offer significantly lower penalties than the Commission would 
otherwise have sought in complaintgenerated matters involving similar 
circumstances. The Commission is also outlining a new expedited 
procedure that it intends to use in a limited number of situations 
through which the Commission may allow individuals and organizations 
that selfreport violations and that make a complete report of their 
internal investigation to proceed directly into conciliation prior to 
the Commission determining whether their conduct may have violated 
statutes or regulations within its jurisdiction. The proposed policy 
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  <pubDate>Fri, Dec 8 2006 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[
Proposed Statement of Policy Regarding Treasurer's Best Efforts  To Obtain, Maintain, and Submit Information as]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2006-12-08-E6-20752</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ The Federal Election Commission (the ``Commission'') seeks 
comments on a proposal to clarify its enforcement policy with respect 
to the circumstances under which it intends to consider a political 
committee and its treasurer to be in compliance with the recordkeeping 
and reporting requirements of the Federal Election Campaign Act, as 
amended (``FECA''), based on the ``best efforts'' defense. Section 
432(i) of Title 2 provides that when the treasurer of a political 
committee demonstrates that best efforts were used to obtain, maintain, 
and submit the information required by FECA, any report or any records 
of such committee shall be considered in compliance with FECA (and/or 
chapters 95 and 96 of Title 26). In the past, the Commission has 
interpreted this section to apply only to a treasurer's efforts to 
obtain required information from contributors to a political committee, 
and not to maintaining information or the submission of reports. 
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  <pubDate>Fri, Dec 8 2006 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Proposed Policy Statement Establishing a Pilot Program for  Probable Cause Hearings]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2006-12-08-E6-20844</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ The Commission is issuing a proposed policy statement to 
establish a pilot program offering probable cause hearings to 
respondents in enforcement actions pending before the Commission. The 
pilot program would allow respondents to request a hearing directly 
before the Commission prior to the Commission's consideration of the 
General Counsel's probable cause recommendation. The program would 
provide respondents with the opportunity to present directly arguments 
to the Commission and give the Commission an opportunity to ask 
relevant questions. The Commission requests comments on this proposed 
pilot program.
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  <pubDate>Fri, Dec 8 2006 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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