It’s not like we need another example of dysfunctional, disingenuous and generally bad behavior in our politics today, but that’s what we’re seeing in the latest effort to undermine a historic piece ...
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world with a net worth north of $400 billion, is now also the biggest donor in U.S. politics, having spent more than a quarter of $1 billion to elect Donald Trump ...
Two years after Oregon lawmakers approved new limits on and oversight of political contributions, a top Democrat has proposed delaying major pieces of the campaign finance law, leaving the limits ...
Cypress officials reduced city council campaign contribution limits from $5,900 to $1,250 per donor ahead of November's elections.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While running for president for the first time in 2019, Kamala Harris, then a U.S. senator from California, said campaign finance ...
A Senate committee approved legislation to reform Mississippi’s notoriously lax campaign finance laws, while a House ...
WAS IN THE US SENATE. CONNECTICUT SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY WAS IN THE GRANITE STATE LAST WEEK. HE PARTICIPATED IN THE NEW SERIES OF STAND UP NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN HALLS, BEING PUT ON BY DEMOCRATS, AND HE ...
Two years ago, the McCain-Feingold Law, named for Senate Republican John McCain and Democrat Russ Feingold, became the first campaign finance reform in a generation. Like all campaign finance reforms, ...
Campaign spending in North Carolina politics is rapidly increasing, with some races projected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. A legal exception allows unlimited contributions to political ...
Too high and donors have the potential for undue influence. Too low and PACs form to use independent expenditures unregulated under the Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC. LA MESA – Engaged ...
Even lawmakers who’ve been around Springfield a long time were taken aback at the audacity of Senate President Don Harmon slipping a provision into a broader elections reform bill that would have ...
A push for campaign finance and election reforms in the Mississippi Senate and House have passed through the first of many hurdles. But there are more hurdles to come. If the opposition seen in the ...