OpenSecrets: Interview with Top Campaign Finance Attorney Trevor Potter
By Kathleen Ronayne on August 3, 2011 3:00 PM Attorney Trevor Potter has been a part of the campaign finance world for two decades. During the early […]
Democracy 21 and Campaign Legal Center Challenge Legality of IRS Regulations as Failing to Properly Limit Campaign Activity by 501(c)(4) Organizations
|-, Archive |by DianeDemocracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center filed a petition today with the Internal Revenue Service challenging the legality of IRS regulations that define whether […]
Democracy 21 and Campaign Legal Center Petition IRS for Rulemaking on 501(c)(4) Groups
|-, Archive |by DianePetition to IRS July 27 2011.pdf
Reform Groups Call for Outside Counsel to Complete Ethics Committee Investigation of Representative Maxine Waters; Groups Urge Strengthened Role for OCE
|-, Archive |by DianeCampaign Legal Center – Common Cause – CREWDemocracy 21 – League of Women Voters Public Citizen – U.S. PIRG Enclosed for your information is a […]
Open Secrets: Several Presidential Campaigns Rev Small-Dollar Donor Engines, While Others Sputter
|-, Archive |by DianeBy Michael Beckel President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign made waves for the sheer volume and magnitude of individuals who gave him small-dollar donations — and who repeated this […]
Super-PACs and Dark Money: ProPublica’s Guide to the New World of Campaign Finance
|-, Archive |by DianeBy Kim Barker and Marian Wang The nation is gearing up for yet another "most expensive election in history," the quadrennial exercise in which mind-numbing amounts […]
Roll Call: Public Funds Dwindle for 2012 Campaigns
|-, Archive |by DianeBy Amanda Becker Roll Call Staff The federal program providing public money to presidential campaigns is dying. Going into […]
Brief Filed in Van Hollen Lawsuit Challenging FEC Regulation That Eviscerated the Contribution Disclosure Requirements for Electioneering Ads
|-, Archive |by DianeRepresentative Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) filed a brief last Friday with the federal district court in Washington, DC in a lawsuit he filed in April […]
Washington Post Column by E.J. Dionne: The Supreme Court’s continuing defense of the powerful
|-, Archive |by DianeThe United States Supreme Court now sees its central task as comforting the already comfortable and afflicting those already afflicted. If you are a large […]
FEC Rules Correctly Today that Federal Officeholders and Candidates, and National Party Officials, Cannot Solicit Unlimited Contributions for Super PACs
|-, Archive |by DianeStatement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer By a vote of 6-0, the Federal Election Commission ruled correctly today that federal officeholders and candidates, and […]
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