Resist efforts to relax campaign finance limits on political party coordination with candidates.

As negotiations over the omnibus spending agreement continue, we urge you to resist any attempt to include a controversial campaign finance provision relaxing political party coordination limits.

Keating signed a letter urging congressional leaders to oppose a provision that would relax political party coordination limits.

Bill Keating's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test) - The Voter's Self Defense System - Vote Smart
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The FEC explains that national and state party committees may make coordinated party expenditures for federal candidates, that these do not count against contribution limits, and that they are subject to a separate set of limits.

Establishes the policy baseline: federal law had separate limits on party spending coordinated with candidates, the limits Keating promised to resist relaxing.

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FEC | Party | Coordinated party expenditures
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The FEC listed 2026 coordinated party expenditure limits: Senate nominee limits ranged from $130,600 to $4,071,800; House nominee limits were $130,600 in single-representative states and $65,300 in other states.

Shows that coordinated party expenditure caps still existed going into 2026, but this alone does not show Keating delivered the promise.

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FEC | Party | Coordinated party expenditure limits
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On March 8, 2019, the House passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act, 234-193. The Clerk recorded Rep. Keating, Democrat of Massachusetts, as voting Yea.

Keating advanced a broad campaign-finance and election reform bill in later federal service. This is concrete effort, but the bill also contained provisions increasing or removing some coordinated party expenditure limits.

partial later_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives | Roll Call 118, H.R. 1, For the People Act
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The House-passed 2019 bill included section 5214, titled Increase in limit on coordinated party expenditures, setting a $100,000,000 cap for national party coordinated spending for presidential general-election campaigns. Section 5401 also amended FECA in a way labeled Elimination of Limit on Coordinated Expenditures for certain small-dollar party accounts.

Because Keating voted for this bill, the official text is mixed evidence: it included anti-corruption reforms, but it also relaxed specific party-candidate coordination limits, undercutting a strict reading of the promise.

never later_term A for effort

Congress.gov | H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019, Engrossed in House
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On March 3, 2021, the House passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2021, 220-210. The Clerk recorded Rep. Keating, Democrat of Massachusetts, as voting Yea.

Keating again advanced broad campaign-finance legislation in later service. This counts as effort, but not full delivery on resisting relaxation of coordination limits because the bill retained provisions raising or eliminating some such limits.

partial later_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives | Roll Call 62, H.R. 1, For the People Act of 2021
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The 2021 House-passed H.R. 1 included section 5214 increasing the presidential coordinated party expenditure limit to $100,000,000, and section 5401 allowing enhanced support for candidates through separate small-dollar party accounts, including an elimination of a coordinated expenditure limit for those accounts. It also required new FEC regulations on coordinated communications and added penalties for certain coordinated expenditure violations.

This shows a mixed record: Keating supported stronger coordination enforcement provisions, but also supported bill text that relaxed some party coordination caps. The bill did not become law.

partial later_term A for effort

Congress.gov | H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021, Engrossed in House
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The Supreme Court docket records that on June 30, 2026, judgment was reversed and remanded. The docket identifies the case as National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al. v. Federal Election Commission, et al., and notes that Justice Kavanaugh delivered the opinion joined by five other Justices, with Justice Kagan dissenting joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson.

The final federal outcome as of July 2, 2026 was that the challenge to coordinated party expenditure limits succeeded. This weighs against fulfillment, although it was a judicial outcome rather than a House vote by Keating.

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Supreme Court of the United States | Docket No. 24-621, National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission
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The Supreme Court held that FECA political-party coordinated-expenditure limits violate the First Amendment. The opinion states that the current limits varied by office and state, identifies the plaintiffs as Republican party committees and candidates, and notes that Democratic national campaign committees intervened to defend the limits after the United States declined to defend them.

This is the strongest official evidence that the promise was not ultimately fulfilled: coordinated party spending limits were invalidated in 2026. Keating is not shown as taking a direct role in this litigation.

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Supreme Court Opinion | National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, No. 24-621
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