Wall Street
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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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Jul29
Clips round-up for 7/29/11
Fair Elections/Campaign Finance
House Democrats to Obama: Require Contractors to Disclose Political Donations
“More than 60 House Democrats have signed a letter asking President Obama to issue an executive order requiring federal contractors to disclose political contributions.”
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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
The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and How Wall Street Celebrates an Anniversary Every Day of the Year
Here's a round-up of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's work for the week of July 18-July 22, 2011.
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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.Jul20ONE 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.”
Jul15The Chronicles of Money, Politics, and the British-coloured Scandal That Crossed the Pond
Here's a round-up of Public Campaign and Public Campaign Action Fund's work for the week of July 11-July 15, 2011.
Jul15Clips Round-up for 7/15/11
Fair Elections/Campaign Finance
Before our briefing on Tuesday, we interviewed Rep. Walter Jones (D-N.C.) on why he supports the Fair Elections Now Act: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtazGPneSWA
11 Reasons We Need the Shareholder Protection Act
Ciara Torres-Spellicsy gives a variety of reason of why we need the recently introduced Shareholder Protection Act.Jul14Clips 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