Under a new ruling, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) will allow traditional political action committees to merge with super PACs, effectively allowing unlimited corporate contributions directly to candidates.
U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) is the recipient of the second-largest amount of money from the defense industry during the 2011-2012 election cycle as he begins his campaign to replace a leading voice in the U.S. Senate opposed to defense contracting waste, fraud and abuse.
The Federal Election Commission agreed Thursday to investigate a complaint GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger filed last month against Fox News, according to Karger’s presidential campaign.
Despite accepting nearly a quarter-million dollars from PACs since the November election, Texas’ three newest GOP congressmen had some $2 million in combined campaign debt at the end of 2010, according to Federal Election Commission data. Meanwhile, U.S. Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) and Ron Paul (R-Clute) are at the More…
The flood of political spending, coupled with the likely defeat of campaign finance hero Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), is making the elections a pretty grim spectacle for campaign finance advocates, but The Wall Street Journal opinion page is feeling positively giddy:
As for the rest of us, we can
Conservative groups may still be dominating the outside spending game overall, but it turns out that in the last couple weeks, liberal ones have been competing nearly toe to toe:
But now independent groups that support Democrats – including unions, environmental organizations and new players – are fast gaining
Democrats have raised more money than Republicans, as stories in both The New York Times and Politico point out today. It’s no secret among those tracking political spending, but the news could come as a surprise to some readers who have closely followed the coverage of reporters (including More…
Americans seem a lot quicker to be roused by the prospect of foreign nationals spending money in U.S. elections than, say, big domestic corporations, but why can’t foreigners spend like the rest of us? Loyola Law School Professor Rick Hasen argued the other week that the Supreme Court’s More…
It’s less than two weeks until election day, which means the time for levying complaints with the Federal Election Commission against political opponents is well underway.
First off, Alaska GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller is accusing Alaskans Standing Together, a group that’s poured nearly $600,000 into attacking him and More…
When Obama reprimanded groups like Crossroads GPS and the Chamber of Commerce for soliciting secret funds to fuel GOP attack ads, Karl Rove bragged on Fox News, “The president, by attacking American Crossroads, has helped drive people to our website and has helped to raise the amount of money that we More…
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