29. Federal Election Commission · Major · Needs Congress
Raise federal campaign contribution limits
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Printed page 866 29. Federal Election Commission
“Raise contribution limits and index reporting requirements to inflation. Contribution limits should generally be much higher, as they hamstring candidates and parties while serving no practical anticorruption purpose.”
What has happened
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No bill raising FECA contribution limits has moved in the 119th Congress and no administration request was found. The only limit changes in the window are the FEC's statutory biennial inflation adjustments.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- The FEC’s 2025-01-30 Federal Register notice Price Index Adjustments for Contribution and Expenditure Limitations (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/30/2025-01941/price-index-adjustments-for-contribution-and-expenditure-limitations-and-lobbyist-bundling) is the routine inflation indexing that BCRA already requires, not a raise; it is not Evidence for the ask.
- The Supreme Court decided National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC (No. 24-621) on 2026-06-30 (supremecourt.gov slip-opinion list, loaded). The case concerns FECA’s limits on coordinated party expenditures, not the contribution limits the Mandate names, and the opinion was not read in this session. Lead: if it struck the coordinated expenditure limits, a reviewer may want a note on the Recommendation but it is a court outcome, not congressional action.
- Bills found in
bills.ndjsonon campaign finance run the other way: H.J.Res. 119, H.J.Res. 122, S.J.Res. 78 and H.J.Res. 191 propose constitutional amendments to limit contributions and spending. Nothing titled to raise or repeal limits.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- FECA contribution limits
- ID
- 2231