Congress
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Mar27
Clips Round-up for 3/27/12
The Senate Rules Committee will hold a hearing on the DISCLOSE Act Thursday, featuring Democracy 21's Fred Wertheimer, Professor Rick Hasen, and David Keating from the "first amendment group" the Center for Competitive Politics.
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Mar23
Clips Round-up for 3/23/12
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Newsday: Public financing for NYS campaigns -
Mar22
Clips Round-up for 3/22/12
Campaign Finance
Times-Union: Ah, reform, Mr. Cuomo?
The Albany Times-Union is waiting for Gov. Cuomo to come through on his reform promises. "With the failure of redistricting reform, overhauling those laws is essential if Mr. Cuomo's wants to keep his promise to fix state government." -
Mar08
Clips Round-up for 3/8/12
Hey! Are you on Tumblr? Public Campaign Action Fund launched its own yesterday. Check it out!
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Mar06
Clips Round-up for 3/6/12
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
NYT: Senate to choose an insider trading bill
STOCK Act update: "Senate leaders, eager to avoid a freewheeling, unpredictable debate on Congressional ethics, are considering simply accepting a House-passed bill to ban insider trading by lawmakers." -
Feb23
Clips Round-up for 2/23/12
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Nancy Pelosi on Colbert Report -
Feb21
Clips Round-up for 2/21/12
Hey everyone, stop getting on Shel Adelson's case. He's "against very wealthy people attempting to or influencing elections." But, he might give $100M to Gingrich anyway.
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Feb17
Join Congressman John Sarbanes!
Congressman John Sarbanes (D-MD), a strong supporter of the Fair Elections Now Act and a co-chair of the House Democratic Task Force on Fair Governance, has launched a Grassroots Donor Project. To counter super PAC spending and the role of big special interests, this project demonstrates the collective power that many individuals have by building a grassroots movement of small donors.
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Feb17
Clips Round-up for 2/17/12
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Sheboygan Press: Disclosure needed on all campaign money
Editorial on disclosure: "At a time when information is becoming more and more available to the average person, it's more than ironic that we see attempts by state and national lawmakers to keep information about who is trying to influence elections from the voters." -
Feb16
Clips Round-up for 2/16/12
New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY LEAD), a new organization of New York civic, business, and philanthropic leaders, launched yesterday. Check out all the press on our blog and on Citizen Action's.