Want to be a member of Congress? First, raise more than $1 million. Or 10 times more to join the Senate. That’s the price of admission, as calculated by the watchdog group Maplight.org. The average House winner in 2012 raised $1.7 million, or $2,315...
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The Russell Senate Office Building in Washington.
Price of Admission to Congress (Cheap Seats) More than $1 Million
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People celebrate the news that President Barack Obama has won re-election in New York.
Public Campaign Financing: Congressional as Well as Presidential
Following the first privately funded presidential election since the Watergate scandals that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, some House Democrats are trying to make public financing more attractive for those seeking the White House — and expand...
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, in 2011. Photograph by Scott Eells/Bloomberg
Pelosi Holds on to House Democrats
Updated at 10:15 am EST “A picture is worth 1,000 words,” Nancy Pelosi said today, standing alongside several women elected anew to the House of Representatives. This picture, she said, is worth millions of votes. “I come here with my...
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Gene Stilp's pink pig bus.
Pink Pig Campaign: `In Washington, Gonna Need a Much Bigger Pig’
Gene Stilp, Democrat, is challenging Rep. Lou Barletta, a one-term Republican congressman from Pennsylvania. Every campaign needs a bus. Stilp has one:
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