Public Campaign Action Fund - 527

Money Coming In

Katie Schlieper — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:05:27 +0000

We all know that candidates for the Presidency and Congress alike are making the calls to the small, elite group of donors known for writing four-figure checks in election years. But other major avenues for political money are the independent 527 groups who can raise an unlimited amount of money and spend it at will, provided they follow requirements to disclose the source of that money.

Keep Your Caps On

Katie Schlieper — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:43:54 +0000

Laura MacCleery of the Brennan Center for Justice challenges a recent proposition in Roll Call to deal with the largely unregulated activities of independent "527" committees in elections by loosening campaign contributions limits, suggesting that a much better alternative is a robust full public financing program for federal elections.

House Passes "527" legislation

Katie Schlieper — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:51:39 +0000

House approved legislation last night to limit contributions to "527" committees. Details in the Washington Post.

More reflection on WSJ editorial

David Donnelly — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:43:00 +0000

Clean up Congress... Without DeLay!The Wall Street Journal editorial below stops a hair's breadth short of calling on DeLay to step down.I've spent a little time perusing around the blogosphere today, particularly looking at what some more c...

Gingrich Warns DeLay About Ethics

Rick Bielke — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:04:00 +0000

Interesting column by Cragg Hines in today's Houston Chronicle entitled "If Newt is warning DeLay about ethics, times are bad." ...

Potential New Ethics Charges Against DeLay

Rick Bielke — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:40:00 +0000

Newsweek published an article entitled "DeLay: More Cash—And More Questions." It seems that DeLay, in addition to cramming his war chests full of cash, has been filling his legal defense fund with "donations" from lobbyists (which, accor...

Why did DeLay push a pro-tobacco amendment in an anti-terrorism bill?

David Donnelly — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:10:00 +0000

The Daily DeLay: T-Minus 8 days and CountingDeLay Uses 9-11 Bill to Try to Payback Big TobaccoIn October 2001, DeLay added a provision to anti-terrorism legislation that would have prevented foreign governments from recouping billions from tob...