The Federal Election Commission took nearly five years to consider campaign finance charges against a nonprofit group that spent millions of dollars on ads in 2008 seeking to link President Obama to the “terrorist” Weather Underground and its founder William...
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Delegates hug during day three of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sept. 6, 2012.
Bloomberg By the Numbers: $20.6 Million
The Democratic National Committee’s most recent filings last week showed that the party entered May $20.6 million in debt, thanks in large part to the money spent in 2012 to successfully re-elect President Barack Obama. The figures were contained in...
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Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), standing onstage with his wife Susan and daughter Alex, concedes the Pennsylvania Senate race to Republican Pat Toomey November 3, 2010 at the Radnor Hotel in St. Davids, Pennsylvania.
Sestak Eyes Pennsylvania Comeback — in 2016
Just six months have passed since the last election and 18 months remain until the next one in November 2014. Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Sestak already is planning for the election after that. Sestak, a former House member who lost a...
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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) arrives at a news conference at the Capitol March 21, 2012 in Washington, DC. A group of Democratic senators held a news conference to announce new legislation "to blunt the worst effects" of the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision.
Obama and the FEC: Six Vacancies, No Nominations
With the expiration of Republican Caroline Hunter’s term today, every member of the Federal Election Commission is serving under an expired term. Rather than replace any of the commissioners, who have been deadlocked along party lines for years trying to enforce election...
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) hold a news conference to propose new campaign finance legislation at the Capitol on April 23, 2013.
Murkowski, Wyden Team Up: Bipartisan Disclosure Bill
For the first time since Sens. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Russell Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, teamed up to push through a 2002 law that banned corporate, union and unlimited individual donations to the political parties, a new campaign finance bill has...
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Students celebrate after U.S. President Barack Obama was projected the winner of the presidential election inside the Kennedy Forum at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Nov. 6, 2012.
FEC: 2012 Campaign Cost $7 Billion
Candidates, parties, political action committees and other outside groups spent more than $7 billion on the 2012 election, according to a final tally by the Federal Election Commission. That’s the most ever spent on U.S. elections, and surpasses the $5.3 billion...
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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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Karl Rove
Crossroads GPS to FEC: No Means No
Once again the Federal Election Commission has asked the Republican non-profit group Crossroads GPS to disclose its donors. And once again the big-spending organization linked to Karl Rove has rebuffed the request. The latest back-and-forth began yesterday, when the FEC...
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A man jogs past the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Obama’s Call for Online Senate Reports: Transparency with a Savings
President Barack Obama’s budget request calls for Senate candidates to file their campaign finance reports electronically with the Federal Election Commission. Senators have exempted themselves from the electronic filing requirements that have applied to other federal candidates beginning in 2001....
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President Barack Obama on the golf course in Palm City, Florida.
Obama’s Florida Golf Weekend — Limbaugh’s Sweater Weather
More fun facts on the Floridian in Palm City, Florida, where President Barack Obama is having his guys’ golf getaway this President’s Day weekend. Jim Crane, the avid golfer who owns the club and also the Houston Astros baseball team,...
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