The Senate could be on the verge of entering the modern world when it comes to campaign finance. More than one-third of the Senate — 35 senators — have attached their names to legislation that would require candidates to file...
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The Capitol in Washington, DC.
Senators Eye 21st Century World of Campaign Finance
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Obama Campaign Still Owes $3 Million
President Barack Obama’s campaign committee, Obama for America, still owes $3.1 million, new Federal Election Commission filings show. The debts include $626,886 for stage, sound and lighting at campaign events; $500,757 for telemarketing and more than $216,146 for legal fees....
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Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, holds his weekly on camera news conference in the Capitol on Thursday, April 11, 2013.
Boehner Raises $2.4 Million First Qtr
As the House speaker, John Boehner is in a position to raise plenty of campaign funds for his party. The Ohio Republican took in $2.4 million in the first three months of this year, his campaign committee reported to the...
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People gather to watch election coverage in Times Square in New York, on Nov. 6, 2012.
2012 Election Total: $6.3 Billion
The final price tag on the 2012 elections: $6.3 billion. That’s according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which intially pegged the cost at $6 billion. It’s still less than the $7 billion that Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub...
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An AT&T Inc. store in Chicago.
AT&T Political Giving: Early and Often
AT&T Inc. has a tradition of making political contributions early and often. The political action committee of the second-biggest U.S. wireless carrier sent $363,200 to federal candidates and political committees in the first two months of this year, including $169,200...
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A Chevron Corp. station in San Francisco.
Chevron’s $2.5 Mln Donation Challenged by Advocacy Groups
A coalition of advocacy groups filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission today over Chevron Corp.’s $2.5 million donation to a super-political action committee aligned with House Speaker John Boehner. Chevron’s donation to the Congressional Leadership Fund was one...
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Former Sen. John Breaux and other Democratic lobbyists were big early donors to their party's effort to defend its Senate majority in the 2014 elections.
Lobbyists Help Senate Democrats Outraise Republicans in January
Breaux, a Patton Boggs senior counsel and a Louisiana senator from 1987 to 2005, donated $30,800 last month to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, according to a Federal Election Commission filing this week. Gerald S.J. Cassidy, the founder and chief...
Read more »Qualcomm, Settling Lawsuit, Discloses More Than $3 Million in Political Spending
Qualcomm Inc. today disclosed donations to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other tax-exempt groups that, together with contributions to political entities, totaled almost $3.2 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. The San Diego-based maker of communications microchips...
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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain holds up a cupcake decorated with his 9-9-9 economic plan before a speech at the National Press Club in this file photo.
Super-PACs Still Super With $5.4 Mln — Though `9-9-9′ Down to Last $100
One legacy of the 2012 presidential race: the super-political action committees it spawned. Weeks after the Nov. 6 election, those groups still had more than $5.4 million left to spend, Federal Election Commission reports due yesterday show. Each candidate —...
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Images of President Barack Obama, left, and Republican Mitt Romney are seen on a monitor while a trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Nov. 7, 2012.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: $7 Billion
That’s about how much was spent on the 2012 election, according to an estimate from the Federal Election Commission. Candidates spent about $3.2 billion, compared with $2 billion spent by the political parties and $2.1 billion by outside political committees,...
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