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| | Campaign Finance "Reform": The Good, The Bad and the Unconstitutional |
 | | In its campaign finance decisions, the Supreme Court repeatedly has held that monetary contributions to candidates and political organizations are accorded First Amendment protections because they directly implicate the freedom of speech and association. | | | Amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) will be debated in the U.S. Senate as early as mid-July 1999 and in the U.S. House of Representatives in September 1999. | | | As the Supreme Court held in Buckley v. |
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http://www.heritage.org/Research/GovernmentReform/BG1308.cfm
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| | DAWN Initiative: Campaign Finance Reform |
| | SB 1 was recently referred to the Campaign and Elections Committee in the Assembly having passed the Senate on a 28-5 vote. | | | On February 8, 2005, Senate Bill 46 -- the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2005 -- was introduced in the Wisconsin legislature by Senator Michael Ellis (R - Neenah). | | | The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is also sponsoring a five-point campaign called Power to the Voter. |
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http://www.dawninfo.org/advocacy/issues/camp_fin.cfm
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| | Campaign Finance Reform: The Issue |
| | Congress made further amendments to the FECA in 1976, following the Supreme Court case of Buckley v. | | | In December 2003, the Supreme Court upheld all of the law's major provisions. | | | President Bush signed the bill into law in March 2002, and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law's major provisions in a December 2003 decision.. |
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http://www.opensecrets.org/news/campaignfinance/index.asp
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| | NOW with Bill Moyers. For Educators. Campaign Finance Reform PBS |
| | Valeo, 1976: Landmark Supreme Court case involving the constitutionality of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended in 1974. | | | Additionally, the Supreme Court has ruled that absolute limits on federal campaign spending violate the First Amendment to the Constitution. | | | A study by Common Cause reveals that before the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act took effect on November 6, 2002, the Democratic and Republican Parties raised a record-breaking $470.6 million in soft money during the 2001-2002 election cycle. |
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http://www.pbs.org/now/classroom/campaignfinance.html
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| | Campaign finance reform needs new battlefield 2 |
| | Unfortunately, the basic message of Measure 6, that elections should be owned by voters and not campaign contributors, was not heard during last fall's cluttered election. | | | But ultimately democracy will be best served by moving to the battlefield for public funding campaign finance reform that provides for voter owned elections. | | | Ballot Measure 6 called for a radically different reform alternative at the statewide level. |
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http://www.dailytidings.com/2001/news0425/opinion/dt_opinion-01.php
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| | Campaign Finance Reform |
| | The bill has died in the Senate in recent years because of filibustering by Senate Republicans. | | | Opponents argue that the reforms will undermine First Amendment rights to free speech. | | | Supporters of the McCain-Feingold bill argue that it is needed to counter the growing influence of money in American politics and a general unraveling of current campaign laws. |
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http://www.policyalmanac.org/government/campaign_finance.shtml
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| | Campaign Finance Reform |
| | With that, I would be glad to take any questions relating to the campaigns or on campaign finance, or today's decision by the Supreme Court. | | | The phenomenon of soft money and issue advertising led to a new law that was enacted in 2002, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, sponsored in the Senate by Senators McCain and Feingold, and sponsored in the House by Congressmen Shays and Meehan. | | | It was that law which was the subject of the Supreme Court decision that was handed down today. |
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http://fpc.state.gov/27142.htm
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| | Teachable Moment - |
| | The measure passed by the Senate carried within it a procedure for moving any challenges quickly to the Supreme Court (which ruled by a 5-4 vote on December 10, 2003 that the law was constitutional). | | | Contribute up to $10,000 to political parties in states, money that can be used indirectly to influence state and national elections. | | | Do you think the new campaign finance law should be judged constitutional? |
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http://www.teachablemoment.org/high/campaignfinance.html
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| | Campaign Finance Reform |
| | The administrator would be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, and hold a long term of office with limited grounds for removal." Senate and House leaders of the campaign finance reform movement were on hand to express support for the concept of overhauling the FEC. | | | [Updated December 15, 2003] On December 10, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 in a 5 to 4 decision seen as a victory for campaign finance reform advocates. | | | McCain and Feingold introduced the Federal Election Administration Act of 2003, which would create a new independent agency, the Federal Election Administration, to replace the FEC. |
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http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/cfinref.html
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| | Brennan Center Democracy Program - Campaign Finance Reform |
| | The Brennan Center was part of the legal team defending the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 at both the District Court and Supreme Court levels. | | | Illinois Coalitions for Jobs, Growth and Prosperity and Illinois Campaign for Political Reform et al. | | | We are currently helping to defend a similar law in Colorado. |
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http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/programs_dem_cfr.html
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| | Senate to take up softened campaign finance reform - October 12, 1999 |
| | "Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing," Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-New Jersey) warned. | | | House approves sweeping changes in campaign finance law (9-15-99) | | | But Republican opponents have made it clear they will filibuster against any bill that bans soft money. |
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http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/12/campaign.finance/index.html
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| | Public Campaign -- A New Kind of Reform Politics |
| | Two seats on the seven-member Supreme Court and three seats on the 15-member Court of Appeals were up for election. | | | Both Supreme Court races and two of the three Court of Appeals seats were won by candidates who ran with public financing. | | | Public Campaign -- A New Kind of Reform Politics |
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http://www.publicampaign.org
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| | Religious Leaders on Campaign Finance Reform |
| | The two co-chairs of Religious Leaders for Campaign Finance Reform, the Rev. Jay Lintner, Director of the Washington Office for the United Church of Christ and the Rev. Albert Pennybacker, Washington Office Director for the National Council of Churches, pledged to continue the effort at the state level. | | | Kathy Thornton, Director of Network, a National Catholic Social Justice Lobby: "We are deeply troubled that Congress has once again stifled an attempt to bring even minimal reform to the campaign finance system. | | | Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, commented, "Arizona, Massachusetts, Missouri and New York City will vote on the clean money proposal for campaign finance reform this November. |
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http://www.ncccusa.org/news/newsthir.html
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| | Campaign Finance Reform Funding |
| | David Hantman's Campaign for State Senate in 1998. | | | The Governor's Blue-Ribbon Commission on Campaign Finance Reform On November 20th, 1996, Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson appointed a bi-partisan Commission on Campaign Finance Reform. | | | The FEC and the Federal Campaign Finance Law. |
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http://www.taxpolicy.com/cfr.htm
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| | No Lobby - Campaign Finance Reform: The Rational Solution |
| | The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act--under review by the U.S. Supreme Court--is an ominous limitation on free speech. | | | Why New Campaign Finance Laws Will Punish Free Speech, But Not Corruption | | | We combat judicial corruption by prosecuting judges who accept bribes in exchange for making unjust rulings. |
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http://www.nolobby.com
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| | Government Reform/Campaign Finance Reform |
| | That is why I have made campaign finance reform a major priority and will continue to do so for as long as I serve in the Senate. | | | This work is crucial because without these reforms the Congress cannot hope to command the respect and trust of the American people. | | | To underscore the importance of campaign finance reform to virtually everything the Congress does, I began in 1999 to discuss on the Senate floor the campaign contributions of major interests involved in legislation that the Senate considers. |
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http://www.senate.gov/~feingold/issuearea/govreform.html
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| | Holding Power Accountable - Common Cause |
| | February 7, 2006: Common Cause is shining the light on the need for public financing of judicial campaigns. Common Cause, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI) and Citizen Action Illinois are asking for an investigation of Illinois State Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier, who has made favorable decisions regarding corporate donors. | | | February 1, 2006: Common Cause President Chellie Pingree is on Capitol Hill this morning, testifying before the House Government Reform Committee on a number of government reforms, including the need for an independent ethics commission in Congress. | | | February 2, 2006: Newly elected House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has his reform work cut out for him, given the pushback from House Republicans on Wednesday concerning the most minor rules changes regarding former members-turned-lobbyists visiting the House gym and floor. |
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http://www.commoncause.org/laundromat
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| | Campaign Finance Reform |
| | In the 107th Congress, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (Shays/Meehan) is H.R. 2356; became Public Law 107-155 in 2002 | | | Ruling by the 8th Court of Appeals declaring campaign limits for state offices in Missouri is unconstitutional | | | In the 106th Congress, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (Shays/Meehan) was H.R. Passed by House on September 14, 1999 |
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http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/campfin.html
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| | Campaign Finance Reform |
| | Discount on postage rates (for campaign mailings equal to twice the voting age population of that state). | | | The McCain-Feingold Act would effectively end soft money contributions by making all contributions subject to those guidelines set by federal election laws. | | | Highlights of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act (S.25) |
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http://members.tripod.com/~jayz7/campaign.html
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| | Campaign Finance Reform |
| | Finance Reformer McCain to Form His Own PAC | | | Supreme Court's Campaign Finance Decision No Aid to McCain-Feingold | | | McConnell to Lead Court Fight on McCain Finance Bill |
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http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/Campaign_Finance_Reform.shtml
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| | The Reform Debate: Politics and the First Amendment" | | | Money and Politics: A History of Federal Campaign Finance Law | | | The First Amendment at Work: Constitutional Restrictions on Campaign Finance Regulation |
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http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/gs/cf/sourcebk
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| | About Campaign Finance Reform |
| | I suppose that after this next round of new laws fails to stop the habitual offenders (and it will), we will be forced to enact such drastic measures as handcuffing each elected official to a Boy Scout and the respective politician's mother. | | | Oh, yes -- it was to give THESE bozos a monopoly on information; | | | In this year’s elections for state offices, 10 percent of Republican candidates, 46 percent of Democratic candidates and 67 percent of Green Party candidates chose to receive public money for their campaigns from the commission. |
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http://www.freedomkeys.com/finance.htm
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| | Clean Elections Institute Inc. |
| | State Rep. David Burnell Smith's tumultuous year in the Legislature came to an abrupt end Thursday when the Arizona Supreme Court upheld his removal from office for violating spending limits in his publicly funded election campaign. | | | January 27, 2006 - The Arizona Republic - By Thomas Ropp - Arizona Supreme Court Tells Smith to vacate office Representative stays it's 'unlikely' he'll appeal to U.S. Supreme Court | | | January 20, 2006 -Many supporters were interested in reading the the Court of Appeals Brief in the David Burnell Smith case, click here for the brief. |
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http://www.azclean.org
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| | California Secretary of State - Political Reform Division Home Page |
| | The Political Reform Act was adopted as a statewide initiative (Proposition 9) by an overwhelming vote of the electorate in 1974. | | | This includes the disclosure of contributions and expenditures in connection with campaigns supporting or opposing state and local candidates and ballot measures as well as the disclosure of expenditures made in connection with lobbying the State Legislature and attempting to influence administrative decisions of state government. | | | Contact Us The Political Reform Division administers provisions of California's Political Reform Act, including the law's most fundamental purpose of ensuring that "receipts and expenditures in election campaigns should be fully and truthfully disclosed in order that the voters may be fully informed and
the activities of lobbyists should be regulated and their finances disclosed..." |
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http://www.ss.ca.gov/prd/prd.htm
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| | Brennan Center for Justice |
| | Elected Judges and Their Campaign Contributors: Brennan Center Urges Supreme Court to Set Rules for When They Meet in Court (02/03/06) | | | The End of Influence: Michael Waldman Writes in The New York Times of the Abramoff Scandal as a Potential "Reform Moment" (01/06/06) | | | The Judge has asked for further briefing about pivotal Separation of Powers issues. |
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http://www.brennancenter.org
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| | Opensecrets.org--Money in politics data |
| | What amazes me is that we continue this fiction in this place that somehow elections ought to be handled as a private matter. | | | There is no more public activity in which American citizens engage than electing leaders who are supposed to help run the country." | | | — Rep. David R. Obey (D-Wis.) (House and Senate debates on campaign finance reform (summer 1996)) |
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http://www.opensecrets.org
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| | Wisconsin Democracy Campaign - Pushing Democracy Since 1995 |
| | Pictures from the October 27, 2005 rally for campaign reform. | | | WDC's media efforts to promote reform of Wisconsin's democracy. | | | To carry out this mission, WDC tracks the money in Wisconsin politics and works for campaign finance reform, media reform and other pro-democracy reforms. |
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http://www.wisdc.org
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| | GS Campaign Finance Reform, a Project at the Brookings Institution |
| | Supreme Court Upholds All Major Provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act | | | The Future of Campaign Finance: Congress, the FEC, and the Courts | | | Three of the country's leading experts on campaign finance reform and coauthors of The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook (Brookings 2005) discussed what was learned from the 2004 election cycle and what developments in Congress, the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and the courts lie ahead. |
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http://www.brook.edu/gs/cf/cf_hp.htm
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| | Tracking the Payback - Campaign Finance Reform |
| | Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), an outspoken critic of the new law, and the Republican National Committee also filed lawsuits, asking for the law’s ban on soft money contributions to be struck down. | | | The court restricted how soft money can be spent, however, prohibiting political parties from using it to run issue ads. | | | In May 2003, a federal court ruled that the new law’s ban on soft money was unconstitutional, allowing the political parties to resume raising the unlimited campaign contributions. |
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http://www.opensecrets.org/payback/issue.asp?issueid=CFR&CongNo=107
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| | Common Cause: CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM |
| | Texas has no laws limiting contributions or expenditures in statewide and legislative campaigns. | | | The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that limits on one's own campaign must be voluntary. | | | Leftover funds should be returned to a political party or to a Public Finance Fund. |
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http://www.ccsi.com/~comcause/position/pp_cfr.html
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| | Doris Granny D Haddock |
| | Haddock became interested in campaign reform and led a petition movement. | | | After the defeat of Senator McCain and Senator Feingold's first attempt to remove unregulated "soft" money from campaigns in 1995, Mrs. | | | When no Democrat would run against popular U.S Senator Judd Gregg in her home state of New Hampshire, at the age of 94 she announced for the seat, with the idea that she would use the campaign to speak out against the Bush policies. |
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http://www.grannyd.com
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| | The Campaign Legal Center: index |
| | Reform Groups Call for Investigation into Abramoff Lobbying Scandals / FEC Adopts Final Definition of "Federal Election Activity" / FEC Files Opposition to WRTL's Motion to Expedite / Legal Center's Paul S. Ryan Testifies Before Kansas Legislature / Legal Center Executive Director Speaks on Voting Right Reauthorization / Week in the News | | | On February 9, 2006, the Coalition calls on the House and Senate ethics committees to immediately initiate investigations into potential violations of congressional ethics rules by Members of Congress who have received favors and campaign contributions from lobbyist Jack Abramoff. | | | Reform Groups Call on Congressional Ethics Committees to Investigate Abramoff Lobbying Scandals |
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| | C-SPAN: Campaign Finance Reform |
| | S.J.Res.4 was defeated by a vote of 40 to 56 on Monday, March 26, 2001 >> | | | H.R. 2356 - Shays-Meehan Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act >> | | | The Senate Committee formally concluded its investigation with the approval of the majority report. |
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http://www.c-span.org/congress/campaignfinance
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| | Education on voter rights, voter disenfranchisement and grassroots organizing is provided through the Hamer's Trainers Education Corps. | | | is a multi-ethnic, intergenerational leadership corps that is building and leading campaigns, initiatives and coalitions around the issues of equality, inclusion and representation in the democratic system | | | highlights the dramatic disparity between America's diverse population and the small number of people who finance political campaigns. |
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http://www.flhp.org
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| | Campaign Finance Reform |
| | By constantly chasing big contributors and repaying their special favors, Congress repeatedly shortchanges the ordinary citizen. | | | This applies to both campaign finance and all the other issues we find important. | | | Our entire government will be more responsive when elected officials have stronger incentives to address the issues. |
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http://www.heartsandminds.org/articles/campfnrf.htm
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| | The Campaign Finance Institute |
| | Money, Politics, and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act | | | Only 20% of the Democratic Incumbents So Far Have a Financially Active Challenger, Compared to About 55% of the Republican Incumbents. | | | 4/05/05: New CFI Study on Senate Disclosure: Senators Exempt Themselves from Federal Electronic Filing Requirements, Preventing Timely Web Searches of their Finances. |
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http://www.cfinst.org
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| | Public Citizen Campaign Finance Reform - Campaign Finance Reform |
| | WESTAR: Buying Benefits with Campaign Cash--Public Citizen Urges Investigation | | | The best and most comprehensive reform is voluntary public financing of all federal elections where candidates have strong incentives to replace private money with public funding. | | | Advocating before Congress for consumer and legal rights |
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http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/index.cfm
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| | Illinois Campaign for Political Reform |
| | Read the Letter to Legislators (Mailed January 18) | | | The Illinois Campaign for Political Reform is a non-partisan public interest group that conducts research and advocates reforms to promote public participation in government, address the role of money in politics and encourage integrity, accountability, and transparency in government. | | | State Gets Not-So-Gentle Push: Reform advocate thinks time is right to change politics as usual in Illinois |
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http://www.ilcampaign.org
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| | Debt grants Campaign finance reform |
| | The American Reform Party ARP was established as a democratic, selfgoverning,Campaign contributors control legislation favoring their interests.. | | | Principal Sponsors of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act Ask FEC CommissionersFEC Grants National Party Committee Status to the Green Party. | | | Campaign Finance Reform Passes Senate Faces Troubles in House For SmallBusiness Grants Look to the StatesFinding and Recovering Unclaimed Money Held. |
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http://www.mediasport.ru/debt-grants/campaign-finance-reform.htm
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| | Campaign Finance Homepage |
| | REFORM LEGISLATION Campaign finance reform raises fundamental questions about the role of government. | | | REFORM PROPOSALS | REFORM LEGISLATION | WHO'S GIVING TO WHOM | | | | REFORM PROPOSALS Campaign finance reform proposals are taking shape at the state and national level. |
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http://www.campaignfinancesite.org
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| | MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action |
| | Wiretapping Americans without a warrant violates the Constitution and the president has admitted to doing just that. | | | After MoveOn members in CA made hundreds of calls, the state Assembly voted in favor of public financing. | | | With section intros by Gail Sheehy, Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore, an inspiring collection of 50 call-to-action essays from MoveOn members. |
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| | Washingtonpost.com: Campaign Finance Special Report |
| | The amount of money needed to win a federal election these days – most notably, the presidency – is enormous. | | | As a result, members of Congress spend a lot of time and energy – and money – raising funds for their next election. | | | The Clinton and Dole campaigns spent about $232 million in the 1996 campaign cycle – supplemented by about $69 million in "issue ads" paid for by the Republican and Democratic national committees. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
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| | Christopher Shays -- Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act |
| | Christopher Shays -- Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act | | | By calling sham issue ads what they truly are -- very real campaign ads -- we enforce the 1907 and 1947 laws and prevent corporate treasury and union dues money from funding campaigns." |
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http://www.house.gov/shays/reform/cfreform.htm
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| | Campaign Finance Information Center |
| | The workshops will emphasize money in local and state elections, as well as the Federal Election Commission and the impact of nonprofit 527 ideologic organizations at all levels. | | | More stories about campaign finance and politics are there. | | | In some cases, it includes money flow to and from political action committees (PACS), candidate committees and party committees. |
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http://www.campaignfinance.org
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