Comprehensive reform bill would end individual candidate Super PACs, repair presidential public financing system, create similar financing system for Congressional races and strengthen rules prohibiting coordinated spending by outside groups In a letter sent today, reform groups urged Representatives to support and co-sponsor H.R. 270, which is the most comprehensive campaign finance reform legislation pending […]

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus’s call today to allow political parties to accept unlimited contributions from corporations, wealthy individuals and special interest groups to finance nominating conventions is a call for greater corruption of our political system. Unlimited contributions to candidates and parties creates an “inherent” corrupt system as found by the Supreme Court in the […]

Ten reform groups today wrote to President Obama strongly urging him to veto H.R. 2019 which repeals public financing for party presidential nominating conventions. H.R. 2019 passed by voice vote earlier this week in the Senate after passing the House in December 2013. The groups include Americans for Campaign Reform, Brennan Center for Justice, the Campaign Legal Center, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics […]

In a letter sent to President Obama today, Democracy 21 called on the President “to shut down Organizing for Action or, alternatively, to end any relationship that you and your Administration have with OFA.” According to the letter: Recent published reports by NBC News, The New York Times and The Washington Post indicate that Organizing […]

In a letter sent to the IRS and the Treasury Department, eleven reform groups strongly urged the IRS and Treasury Department to move forward expeditiously with the rulemaking proceeding proposed to revise the existing federal regulations regarding electoral activities by tax-exempt section 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations. The reform groups include Americans for Campaign Reform, Brennan […]