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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3492 
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to increase the limits 
on the amount of contributions that may be made to political committees 
and to provide for the indexing of such limits for all contributions 
made under the Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 
Mr. WESTMORELAND introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on House Administration 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to 
increase the limits on the amount of contributions that 
may be made to political committees and to provide 
for the indexing of such limits for all contributions made 
under the Act, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘PAC Fairness Act of 
2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. INCREASE IN CONTRIBUTION LIMITS FOR POLIT-
ICAL COMMITTEES. 
(a) CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL COMMITTEES.— 
Section 315(a)(1)(C) of the Federal Election Campaign 
Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 441a(a)(1)(C)) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘$5,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$7,500’’. 
(b) CONTRIBUTIONS MADE
BY MULTICANDIDATE 
COMMITTEES.—Section 315(a)(2) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 
441a(a)(2)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘$5,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$7,500’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘$15,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$25,000’’; and 
(3) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘$5,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$7,500’’. 
SEC. 3. INDEXING OF ALL CONTRIBUTION LIMITS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 315(c)(1)(B) of the Fed-
eral Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 
441a(c)(1)(B)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(B) Except as provided in subparagraph (C)— 
‘‘(i) in any calendar year after 2002— 
‘‘(I) a limitation established by subsection 
(a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B), (b), or (h) shall be in-
creased by the percent difference under sub-
paragraph (A), 
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‘‘(II) each amount so increased shall re-
main in effect for the calendar year, and 
‘‘(III) if any amount after the adjustment 
made under subclause (I) is not a multiple of 
$100, such amount shall be rounded to the 
nearest multiple of $100; and 
‘‘(ii) in any calendar year after 2008— 
‘‘(I) a limitation established by subsection 
(a)(1)(C), (a)(1)(D), or (a)(2) shall be in-
creased by the percent difference under sub-
paragraph (A), 
‘‘(II) each amount so increased shall re-
main in effect for the calendar year, and 
‘‘(III) if any amount after the adjustment 
made under subclause (I) is not a multiple of 
$100, such amount shall be rounded to the 
nearest multiple of $100.’’. 
(b) PERIOD OF INCREASE.—Section 315(c)(1)(C) of 
such Act (2 U.S.C. 441a(c)(1)(C)), as amended by section 
2(b)(1), is amended by striking ‘‘subsections (a)(1)(A), 
(a)(1)(B), and (h)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (a) and 
(h)’’. 
(c) DETERMINATION
OF
BASE
YEAR.—Section 
315(c)(2)(B) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 441a(c)(2)(B)) is 
amended— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of clause (i); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of clause 
(ii) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
clause: 
‘‘(iii) for purposes of subsections (a)(1)(C), 
(a)(1)(D), and (a)(2), calendar year 2007.’’. 
SEC. 4. EXPANDING ABILITY OF CORPORATIONS AND 
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS TO COMMUNICATE 
WITH MEMBERS. 
(a) TYPES OF COMMUNICATIONS PERMITTED.—Sec-
tion 316(b)(4)(B) of the Federal Election Campaign Act 
of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 441b(b)(4)(B)) is amended by striking 
‘‘only by mail addressed’’ and inserting ‘‘only by commu-
nications addressed or otherwise delivered’’. 
(b) SOLICITATIONS BY TRADE ASSOCIATIONS.—Sec-
tion 316(b)(4)(D) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 441b(b)(4)(D)) 
is amended by striking ‘‘to the extent that’’ and all that 
follows and inserting a period. 
SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by this Act shall apply with 
respect to elections held after December 2007. 
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