The national Republican Party sued the Federal Election Commission Thursday, seeking to overturn prohibitions on unregulated corporate and labor contributions and to make it easier to coordinate spending with federal candidates.
North Carolina's system of publicly financed judicial campaigns remained intact Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge over a provision for additional funds in expensive races.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is struggling with debt, Barack Obama would like to turn his whopping financial advantage into primary victories, and an uncontested John McCain still lags in fundraising even as he broadens his money-raising apparatus.
Federal regulators recommended Tuesday that a newly formed political group cannot accept unlimited contributions from donors if it wants to advocate for or against candidates for federal office.
Democrat John Edwards pledged Saturday to ban lobbyists from jobs in his administration if he is elected.
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has spent nearly $23,000 in campaign funds to pay a Washington lawyer who represents him before the Senate ethics committee, a new campaign finance report shows.
A federal court on Thursday loosened restrictions on corporations, unions and other special interest groups that run political advertising in peak election season.
The Republicans are trying to remove the restrictions that McCain-Feingold puts on contributions to national political parties. Now, the parties are allowed to accept no more than $28,500 a year from individuals, and nothing at all from corporations or labor unions. The R.N.C.
Father gave $28,500 to RNC this year President George W. Bush has characterized the recent US housing crisis as a product of greed and Wall Street excess.
Obama and the Democrats have been bought just like Bush and the Republicans.
As Gov. Rod Blagojevich was trying to pick Illinois' next U.S. senator, businessmen with ties to both the governor and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
One of the more amusing story lines coming out of the elections is that the Republican Party, which previously had been committed to core beliefs like small government and protecting ordinary taxpayers, somehow lost its way in recent years and became beholden to special interest …
What ultimately led to federal conspiracy and bribery charges against Illinois Gov Rod Blagojevich (aside from well-placed wiretaps)? Federal agents say it wasn't the elaborate scheme for an ambassadorship or notions that he would sell President-elect Barack Obama's now-vacant Se …
The president-elect wants to keep an outstanding commitment before Hillary Clinton becomes his secretary of state by calling on his donors to help her reduce her massive campaign debt.
President-elect Barack Obama brought in nearly $750 million for his presidential campaign, a record amount that exceeds what all of the candidates combined collected in private donations in the previous race for the White House, according to a report filed Thursday with the Feder …
The national Republican Party sued the Federal Election Commission Thursday, seeking to overturn prohibitions on unregulated corporate and labor contributions. Discuss.
The 2008 race for the White House that comes to an end on Tuesday fundamentally upended the way presidential campaigns are fought in this country, a legacy that has almost been lost with all the attention being paid to the battle between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.
Obama's acceptance of foreign contributions:
Amid criticism for failing to identify the hundreds of thousands of low-dollar donors who have boosted his $600 million presidential campaign, Barack Obama has responded that it "would be a pretty hard thing for us to be able to process." But there is much widely used and inexpe …
This story is up and walking. His auntie is in the U.S. illegally and now comes the news that she has contributed to his campaign another illegal act.
As Barack Obama's fundraising machine leaves the old milestones for political money in the dust, some mysterious would-be donors have turned up among the 3.1 million contributors.
Is something rotten in the state of public financing for presidential campaigns?
A Democratic Congressional representative from Massachusetts, Frank has accepted over $70,000 in campaign contributions from JP Morgan Chase executives or its PAC since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics web site data base at www.opensecrets.org.
Why doesn't John McCain think before he speaks? Maybe it's because he's so out of touch... he doesn't know where to begin...???
As the most expensive presidential election in history nears its close, Americans by nearly 3-1 think too much money is being spent on the campaign, and most back limits on how much candidates are allowed to spend.
If campaign contributions buy favors from lawmakers, almost every member of Congress owes a lot more to special interests in Washington, D.C. than they do to their constituents.
From core issues to the ephemeral, both presidential candidates have managed to engineer their share of flip-flops. While many have cropped up in attack ads, several are more glaring than others.
Has the 2008 election signaled the end of public financing for presidential campaigns?
But McCain's Oct. 1-15 filing showed that the campaign paid $22,800 to Palin's traveling stylist, Amy Strozzi, an acclaimed celebrity makeup artist. In contrast, McCain's foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was paid $12,500, the report showed.
Some members of Congress seem to feel they should not be held accountable for their actions or finances. S.223 a bill made to make campaign contributions and funding public for congressional campaigns seems to be meeting with some opposition from Sen. John Ensign.
Campaign finance reform working at its finest (sarcastically).... Behind Obama's staggering fundraising numbers, compiled on more than 80,000 pages filed with the Federal Election Commission late Monday, are signs that it was far more than just a surge of Internet donors that fu …
The Democratic presidential candidate reports spending $87.5 million in September.?? His Republican rival spent $37 million.