PACs
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Jun08
NEW REPORT: PACs Unlimited: How Legislator PACs Distort Maine Politics
Our friends at Maine Citizens for Clean Elections (MCCE) are out with a new report: "PACs Unlimited: How Legislator PACs Distort Maine Politics," which finds that "vast sums of big money flow through PACs controlled by legislators. These PACs exist for the purpose of advancing personal interests and party agendas, and big donors contribute to these PACs for the purpose of shaping the legislative agenda and assuring access to legislative leadership.
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May18
JPMorgan's PAC Donations - April 2012
Congressional hearings are likely to begin soon concerning the $3 billion JPMorgan Chase lost through risky trading practices. The bank, like most with an interest in Washington business, has a political action committee that doles out money every month to its preferred candidates.
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Aug30
Clips Round-up for 8/30/11
Congress/2012
House GOP leaders outline sweeping attack on EPA rules
The House GOP will spend the fall attacking the EPA. You'll be surprised, of course, at the campaign giving by energy interests so far this year: http://campaignmoney.org/blog/2011/08/29/house-gop-fall-agenda-benefit-energy-interests.
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Aug29
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Aug25
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Aug03
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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.
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Jul25
Clips round-up for 7/25/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Plan to cut budget of ethics office fails House vote
Rep. Mel Watt's (D-N.C.) efforts to slash the ethics office budget failed after people weren't allowed to vote anonymously.
Lobbyists campaign contributions are the real issue- 2012
- Big Oil
- Bob Edgar
- bundlers
- Citizens United
- Clips
- Common Cause
- consumer financial protection agency
- David Donnelly
- FEC
- Fred Upton
- fundraising
- Jack Abramoff
- Koch Brothers
- Maine Citizens for Clean Elections
- McComish v. Bennett
- Michele Bachmann
- Nick Nyhart
- Office of Congressional Ethics
- PACs
- President Obama
- public campaign
- Rupert Murdoch
- Wall Street
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Jul22
Clips round-up for 7/22/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Watt moves to slash ethics office budget by 40%
With the blessing of Republican leaders, Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) will push to slash the budget of the Office of Congressional Ethics. Makes total sense, what with the pristine reputation of the House Ethics Committee as of late.
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Jul21
Clips round-up for 7/21/11
Campaign Finance/Fair ElectionsA few groups are urging Ethics Chair Rep.