26 U.S.C. § 9009 — Reports to Congress; regulations

(a) Reports As soon as practical after each presidential election, the Commission must send a full report to the Senate and House. The report must cover: the qualified campaign expenses of each party's candidates and their committees, in the detail the Commission thinks is needed; the amounts the Commission certified under section 9005 for payment to eligible candidates of each party; and any repayments required from candidates under section 9007, and why each repayment was required. Every report under this section must be printed as a Senate document. (b) Regulations, etc. The Commission can write rules and regulations — following the review process in subsection (c) — run examinations and audits (on top of the ones required by section 9007(a)), run investigations, and require people to keep and turn over records, books, and information. It can do all this whenever it decides it's needed to carry out its duties under this chapter. (c) Review of regulations (1) Before the Commission puts any new rule or regulation into effect, it must send a statement about it to both the Senate and the House. That statement must lay out the proposed rule and explain and justify it in detail. (2) If neither the House nor the Senate votes to disapprove the proposed rule within 30 legislative days of getting the statement, the Commission can go ahead and issue it. If a House committee reports a resolution about the rule, any member can move to take up that resolution at any later time — even if a similar motion already failed. That motion gets priority treatment: it can't be debated, no amendments are allowed, and the vote on it can't be reconsidered. The Commission cannot issue any rule that either the House or Senate votes to disapprove this way. (3) For this subsection, "legislative days" doesn't count any day when both houses of Congress are out of session. (4) For this subsection, a "rule or regulation" means one rule of law, or a group of related provisions that together state one rule of law, that can be separated out from the rest.