Congress
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Oct19
Clips Round-up for 10/19/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Occupy Wall Street planning a national convention, releases potential demands
An Occupy Wall Street working group put out its demands--the first four all have to do with money and politics and influence peddling. You can see them here: https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/. -
Oct18
Clips Round-up for 10/18/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Rules of the Game: Super PACs multiply, head to Hill
Eliza Newlin Carney asks, are super PACs the new black? Will they be the new leadership PAC?
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Oct12
Clips Round-up for 10/12/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Election Reform
A letter in Kansas talks about the influence of Wall Street on our political process. "Getting rid of the influence of large contributions, big money bundlers and contributions by lobbyists is possible. However, true campaign finance reform will require a broad-based mass movement demanding a law similar to the Fair Elections Now Act (S. 750, H.R. 1404)."
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Sep20
Most Corrupt Members of Congress
The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has released their seventh annual Most Corrupt report, highlighting the most corrupt members of Congress. This year's report names "19 members of Congress – 14 members whose actions violated the law or who otherwise engaged in serious misconduct, and five others whose lack of regard for the rules earned them a dishonorable mention."
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Sep16
Clips Round-up for 9/16/11
Congress/2012
Watchdogs want more lobbying info from supercommittee members
"[A] coalition of government reform and transparency organizations are demanding that supercommittee members voluntarily disclose their committee-related contacts with lobbyists and publicly report any campaign donations within 48 hours of receiving them." Transparency is important, should be tied with a halt to fundraising. -
Aug29
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Aug23
Clips Round-up for 8/23/11
Congress/2012
Super Disclose Them
The New York Times wants transparency for the supercommittee and mentions Brennan Center's call for disclosure of spending by outside groups. But, they need to go further!
Open debt talks are a super idea
The Nashua Telegraph wants transparency too.
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Aug19
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and How a Penny Became Not Nearly Enough For Your Thoughts
Here's a round-up of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's work for the week of Aug 15-Aug 19, 2011.
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Aug09
Clips Round-up 8/9/2011
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Appeals court upholds campaign finance ban on foreign donations -
Aug08
Clips Round-up 8/8/2011
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
I.R.S. handling of donations draws ire of both parties.
A "group of four anonymous political donors is accusing the [I.R.S.] of playing politics on behalf of those Republicans and demanding that it make a decision immediately about whether the gift tax applies to donations to advocacy groups or not."