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This includes direct support payments, money spent to elect the candidate and also money used to campaign against the opposing candidate. Money, whether it be in the form of a payment (bribe) or for campaigning, effectively allows the organization to control what happens in Congress. When Congress people are beholden to corporate and other ...
In 1971, Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), instituting various campaign finance disclosure requirements for federal candidates (those running for the House, the Senate, the President and the Vice President), political parties, and political action committees.
Harvey’s campaign also reported bringing in $176,000 during the entire election season - the most money any Democrat has raised for the fourth district race in more than three decades.
Democratic congressional candidates stockpiled serious campaign cash over the last three months, new fundraising reports show, as the party contends with an increasingly well-funded GOP and ...
LaTurner's decision was announced in April, so this is the first quarterly campaign finance report for the candidates. The next quarterly report isn't due until Oct. 15. The next quarterly report ...
The Campaign Integrity Act (H.R. 1867), proposed by Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), would have banned soft money, which was not yet regulated and could be spent on ads that did not petition for the election or defeat of a specific candidate, and raised limits on hard money.
Most of that money came from out-of-state contributions. About $71,539, or 37%, came from individual donors in Virginia, according to FEC data. Individual campaign contributions less than $200 ...
Other countries choose to use government funding to run campaigns. Funding campaigns from the government budget is widespread in South America and Europe. [10] The mechanisms for this can be quite varied, ranging from direct subsidy of political parties to government matching funds for certain types of private donations (often small donations) to exemption from fees of government services (e.g ...