FEC Seeks Guidance On Issue Ad Rule Changes

FEC SEEKS GUIDANCE ON ISSUE AD RULE CHANGES
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Federal Election Commission wants some help in determining what TV and radio campaign ads can be paid for from corporation or union funds without triggering the ban on electioneering communications in the run-up to a federal primary or general election. The FEC has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with two options for squaring its rules with a Supreme Court decision two months ago that loosened the restriction on such ads. Campaign finance law had been interpreted by the FEC to ban those funds for any ads that mentioned a candidate, but the Supreme Court said that was too tight a rein on political speech to square with the First Amendment and that ads that mentioned candidates could get those funds if there were "susceptible to a reasonable interpretation" that they were other than express advocacy for or against a candidate.
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* FEC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Electioneering Communications
http://www.fec.gov/press/press2007/20070823nprm.shtml