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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 ...
Campaign finance law at the federal level requires candidate committees, party committees, and PACs to file periodic reports disclosing the money they raise and spend. Federal candidate committees must identify, for example, all PACs and party committees that give them contributions, and they must provide the names, occupations, employers and ...
Starting next year, federal candidates can more easily use campaign funds to pay themselves salaries, under a rule approved Thursday by federal election regulators.
The first federal campaign finance law, passed in 1867, was a Naval Appropriations Bill which prohibited officers and government employees from soliciting contributions from Navy yard workers. Later, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 established the civil service and extended the protections of the Naval Appropriations Bill to all ...
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.
Code of Federal Regulations, Aug. 29, PART 734 – POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES Office of Special Counsel, Sept. 9, 2014, A Guide to the Hatch Act for Federal Employees Thank you for ...
At the U.S. federal level, an organization becomes a PAC when it receives or spends more than $1,000 for the purpose of influencing a federal election, and registers with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), according to the Federal Election Campaign Act as amended by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain ...
The Register-Guard wrote this story by searching the Federal Election Committee database for the congressional race, and Oregon's campaign finance database ORESTAR for the other races.