New York Times: Americans Want Disclosure and Limits on Campaign Spending

By Megan Thee-Brenan In a year of record campaign spending, Americans overwhelmingly support limits on corporate and advocacy group funding of campaign advertisements, strongly support limits on how much campaigns can spend and favor full disclosure of spending by both campaigns and outside groups. The latest New York Times/CBS News Poll found that nearly 8 […]

CED Money in Politics Forum: CED poll of business leaders released; Remarks of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer

  I would like to thank the Committee for Economic Development and its President, Charlie Kolb, for holding this forum today. A decade ago, CED provided a powerful and pivotal business voice in the successful effort to enact the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. CED’s return to the campaign finance reform issue is a […]

CED, nonpartisan organization of business leaders, to release Zogby Poll on business views about campaign spending, disclosure

CED Money in Politics Forum Zogby Poll of Business Leaders to be Released CONTACT: Morgan Broman (202)-296-5860 ext. 14Morgan.Broman@ced.org On Thursday, October 28, 2010, the Committee for Economic Development (CED) willhost a luncheon forum on the role of money in politics in a post-Citizens United campaignclimate to discuss what options are available to curtail large, […]