supercommittee
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Nov03
Clips Round-up for 11/3/11
Fair Elections/ Campaign Finance Reform
Agency Nullification at the FEC
Public Citizen’s Craig Holman writes on the failures of the Federal Election Commission. -
Nov02
Clips Round-up for 11/2/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Outside groups may open door to lifting spending caps
What we're watching: "The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision has stirred favorable rumblings about a campaign finance proposal once favored only by GOP lawmakers: Unlimited donations and full transparency."
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Oct28
Clips Round-up for 10/28/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Keeping it Clean: Maine's fight for Fair Elections
Do read this piece by Brooke Jarvis in Yes! magazine on Maine Clean Elections.
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Oct26
Clips Round-up for 10/26/11
This first story felt like it needed to stand on its own:
Tucker Carlson on hosting Jack Abramoff book party: "What he did is hardly out of the ordinary for Washington" -
Oct24
Clips Round-up for 10/24/11
Happy Monday, everyone. Check out this story on Occupy Toledo. A 55 year old dialysis technician told a reporter, "We've got to reform the campaign finance laws so we can hold politicians accountable. The people who have all the money have all the power."
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Oct20
Clips Round-up for 10/20/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
ACLU challenge to small piece of campaign finance law may lead to a slippery slope
"The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday filed a court challenge to a campaign finance law banning individual government contractors from contributing to federal political campaigns."
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Oct17
Pat Toomey's 3rd Quarter Fundraising Occupied by Wall Street Money
Over the weekend, Occupy Wall Street protestors marched from Philadelphia City Hall to the office of Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction member Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to “demand a recommendation that includes job creation; not tax cuts for the wealthy,” as part of the plan the so-called “supercommittee” devises.
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Oct17
Supercommittee Member Becerra’s Investment Company Institute Fundraiser
The Hill reported in August that, “Mere hours after House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) named Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) to the debt-reduction supercommittee, lobbyists were gearing up to fete him at a fundraiser later this month.”
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Oct14
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and Occupying the Week
Here's a recap of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's (PCAF) work from October 11 through October 14, 2011.
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Oct14
Clips Round-up for 10/14/11
Oh look, supercommittee member Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) filed his 3rd quarter fundraising reports yesterday. Is that a Las Vegas fundraiser I see in September? http://campaignmoney.org/blog/2011/10/14/supercommittee-member-dave-camps-3rd-quarter-fundraising. Seems like he might have something more important to do.
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Still another hole in our campaign finance laws