election financing rules

• Election Financing Needs Fixing?

By Mary E. O'Leary Register Topics Editor HARTFORD -- Lawmakers were told Monday that time is of the essence in fixing several elements of the Citizens' Election Program, as more people opt out of the public financing system because of uncertainty around its rules.

• New Haven Register
• February 23, 2010

• Fec Eases Fund-Raising Rules

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission eased some political fund-raising rules Thursday in hopes of salvaging a tattered presidential financing system in the 2008 campaign. By a 5-0 vote, the commission said presidential candidates may solicit private contributions for the general election now and still be eligible for public financing if they become their party's nominee.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• March 02, 2007

• Gop Lawmakers Mull Labor Day Participation

Prosser won't sit on case involving his attorney MADISON, Wis. - - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser will not hear a campaign finance case being argued next week by the attorney who represented him in a recount of his election victory. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Friday that Prosser told parties involved in the case on Thursday that he would step aside. His one-sentence letter did not explain why he decided not to participate. That comes after Prosser asked the parties what he should do, and the Wisconsin Education Association Council asked that he step aside. Tea party groups and other conservatives brought the case last year, arguing that new regulations on campaign financing violate First Amendment rights. The state Government Accountability Board has already...

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• September 03, 2011

• Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (per curiam) (1976)

... The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (Act), as amended in 1974, (a... as amended in 1974, provides for public financing of Presidential nominating conventions and general... civil actions against violators, to make rules for carrying out the Act, to temporarily disqualif...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• U.S. And Canada Tax Law: What To Watch For In 2011.

... until November, when a bruising election shifted control of the House of Representatives to...new reporting rules for uncertain tax positions; and . adoption of sev... baskets, denying relief from debt financing, etc., should have softened the view that an earni...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• The price of politics: 20 years of campaign finance reform in New York City.

... House of Representatives for a single election. In New York City, It's the maximum contribution t... has been charged with enforcing new, strict rules on donations from lobbyists, contractors and other... made history by opting out of public financing, when wealthy businessman Tom Golisano can affect ...

• City Limits Investigates
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 3, September 2008

• The tragedy of the Euro.

... how it is caused by the possibility of financing deficits through a single central bank. . External... stated principle of not applying special rules to a single country, declared that it would accept...Politicians tend to focus on the next elections rather than on the long-term effects of their poli...

• Independent Review
• Vol. 15 Nbr. 4, March 2011

• McConnell v. Federal Election Comm'n, 540 U.S. 93 (2003)

... all parties and candidates follow the same rules designed to protect the electoral process's integr... on state electoral campaign financing. Moreover, while this Court has policed the absolu...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Federal Budget 2009: A Stimulating Budget In Uncertain Economic Times.

... heels of another inconclusive federal election, and following an extraordinary Parliamentary cris... of unpalatable changes to election financing rules, Canada's three Opposition parties refused t...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• Senate Confirms Five New Nominees to Fec ; Commission Faces 'Very Full Agenda of a Backlog of Cases'

Sen. John McCain can expect a ruling on the legality of his decision to pull out of the public-financing system for the Republican presidential primaries, now that the Senate has broken a political logjam and confirmed a bipartisan slate of five nominees to the six-member Federal Election Commission. The panel had been inactive since January because it lacked a quorum to vote on a thicket of cases, also including Mr. McCain's request for $85 million in public financing for the presidential election. The confirmation vote late Tuesday puts three new Republicans and two new Democrats on the board that regulates and rules on all federal election and campaign finance laws.

• The Washington Times
• June 26, 2008