On February 20, 2019, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a statement for the record to the House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee on HR 1. The statement highlights HR 1's expansion of Office of Government Ethics OGE oversight duties, codification of the ethics pledge, and requirements related to the disclosure of certain dark money provisions.

CLC sent a letter to Mary Kendall, the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of the Interior, to request an investigation into several senior members of the Department of the Interior for violations of their ethics pledges.

CLC submitted a statement of support for HR 1, the For the People Act of 2019, to Chairperson Zoe Lofgren and Rep. Rodney Davis of the Committee on House Administration in the United States House of Representatives. HR 1 is a landmark bill designed to address the most pressing challenges to our democracy, which are the four issues CLC focuses on: the influence of money in politics, the erosion of ethical norms, threats to voting rights, and extreme partisan gerrymandering.

CLC submitted a complaint to Inspector General Peggy Gustafson about Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over his failure to divest BankUnited stock, which he claimed to have divested on government forms that he signed under penalty of perjury.

This statement is by Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation and chief of staff at CLC. It was delivered before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives on January 29, 2019.

As a part of CLC's litigation with the General Services Administration (GSA) over FOIA documents, GSA has released 120 pages of responsive documents about government travel. This includes agencies such as the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and more.

As a part of CLC's litigation with the General Services Administration (GSA) over FOIA documents, data about travel records for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was released. The document contains agency travel information, including destination and cost of flights.

CLC published an issue brief on the recently-proposed Political Accountability and Transparency Act, a bipartisan campaign law reform bill.

On January 15, 2019, the Campaign Legal Center submitted comments to Alice T. Germond, Chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission on a proposed amendment to the materiality standard for financial interests in real property. While the proposed amendment intends to simplify the process of making materiality determinations in real property conflicts of interest, it may have unintended negative consequences.

CLC submitted a complaint to the Department of Justice on January 8, 2019 to investigate a failure to register as a lobbyist for a Chinese telecom company. Former Senator Joseph Lieberman had been advising the company, ZTE, on matters affecting U.S. policy, and are requesting that the Foreign Agent Registration Unit investigate.

H.R.1, "For the People Act" was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. This landmark legislation would: increase transparency of campaign spending; set up a system of small-donor matching funds for congressional candidates; revive the matching-fund system for presidential campaigns; expand conflict-of-interest laws; increase oversight of lobbyists; end partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts; establish nationwide automatic voter registration; and reinforce the Voting Rights Act.

This frequently asked questions sheet explains what Donald Trump Jr. did that was illegal according to campaign finance law.

CLC sent a letter on December 19, 2018 to Chairman Gowdy and Ranking Member Cummings about potential undisclosed conflicts of interest on the part of Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who was paid $1.2 million from a single, untraceable source in the three years before joining the Department of Justice. Whitaker was executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), and was the organization's only full-time employee.

CLC wrote the Chair of the Committee on Competitiveness in the Michigan House of Representatives and the Chair on the Committee on Elections and Government Reform to support transparency and Michigan citizens' right to effective enforcement of the state's campaign finance and ethics laws. CLC opposes SB 1176 and SB 1250.

CLC submitted a FOIA Request to the Department of Commerce to obtain information regarding Secretary Wilbur Ross' travel. The request comes in light of at least four U.S Cabinet members and one agency administrator who have used military or chartered aircrafts for personal use at the taxpayers' expense. ​

CLC filed a complaint with the Department of Commerce's Inspector General calling for an investigation into whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated the criminal laws on conflicts of interest and false statements. The complaint provides a detailed roadmap for the Inspector General to determine whether Ross has violated the law, pointing to the fact that Ross has not accounted for 46 assets that he pledged to divest.

Today, CLC filed a supplemental complaint with the Office of the Inspector General concerning Secretary Ross's possible violations of the conflict of interest law. CLC sent an earlier letter to the Inspector General on the same issue on August 13, 2018. 

Walter Shaub released 13 policy recommendations to insulate ethics program from political retaliation, strengthen transparency, increase effectiveness of agency oversight capacity.

CLC filed comments with the Philadelphia Board of Ethics regarding the Proposed Amendments to Board Regulation No. 1. Board Regulation No. 1 relates to campaign finance and CLC supports the Board’s decision to update the regulation.

CLC supports North Dakota's Measure One, which would increase the transparency of spending in state elections, reduce the undue influence of lobbyists, limit the misuse of campaign funds, and establish a state ethics commission. State voters will be able to vote on this on November 6.