lobbying
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Sep13
Clips Round-up for 9/13/11
Last night at the GOP debate, Rick Perry said <http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/09/13/quote_of_the_day.html> , "if you're saying I can be bought for $5,000, I'm offended." Exactly. It takes a lot more than that!
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Rep. Issa hit with ethics allegations -
Sep08
Clips Round-up for 9/8/11
The supercommittee will meet for the first time today at 10:30. Sunlight Foundation will be doing "Sunlight Live." http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2011/sunlight-live-cover-first-supercommittee-hearing/
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
SEC should require corporate political spending disclosures: report -
Aug31
Pay What?
A study released today by the Institute for Policy Studies showed that 25 out of 100 of the top earning CEO's were actually paid more in compensation than their company's paid in federal taxes.
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Aug09
Clips Round-up 8/9/2011
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Appeals court upholds campaign finance ban on foreign donations -
Aug02
Clips Round-up for 8/2/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Rejection in Renzi case might kick it -
Aug01
Clips Round-up for 8/1/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Editorial: Why is Congress tied up in knots?
This Sacramento Bee editorial provides a few solutions to our broken Congress. One includes providing more campaign finance transparency--particularly by requiring Senators to file reports electronically
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Jul26
Clips round-up for 7/26/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
The one-percent solution
More from the Boston Review forum on campaign finance reform. The Campaign Finance Institute's Michael Malbin writes on increasing participation with public matching funds.
Fair Elections
And former Sen. Warren Rudman writes that Fair Elections is the solution.
Congress -
Jul20
ONE YEAR LATER: After Dodd-Frank Financial Reform, Do the Banks Still Run the Place?
This Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act,” legislation passed by Congress to rein in the banks and protect consumers from the practices that led to the economic collapse. Since it’s passage, Wall Street interests have continued to exert influence over Congress in efforts to weaken, repeal, or as one bank lobbyist said recently, “reform the reform.”
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Jul14
Clips Round-up for 7/14/11
Campaign Finance/Fair ElectionsA democracy of voters, not dollars
Adam Skaggs at the Brennan Center writes on the outcome of McComish, "Congress, the states, and municipalities around the country should adopt small donor matching programs without delay. They are the surest way to guarantee that voters, not dollars, are the heart of our democracy."
The FEC awakens -
Jul06