she was previously counseled to perkins coro. and a member of the political law group to counsel clients on federal and state campaign finance and election laws, political ethics, nonprofit law and lobbying regulations. before that, counsel to the house of representatives ethics committee. she served as house ethics manual and principal contributor to the state at 678 manual to documents that i am sure are needed. when i left the committee and investigations and often have left the responsibility for the public education and compliance initiatives. we have discussed this in the hands and we will start by giving an overview of the case law in this area. and ellen weintraub will then discuss the results and the spending patterns and the consequences in this particular election cycle. following this presentation, we will open the floor as we had done previously for your questions and interventions. there are many factors that influence the practices. many of these are covered in the various sessions of the ifes u.s. election program