The Senate Rules Committee held a hearing on S.1, the For the People Act, a wide-ranging bill related to voting rights, campaign finance, and ethics. Former Attorney General Eric Holder, Mic…
3,128 viewsDuring the opening plenary session of Represent.us’s inaugural Unrig the System Summit, actress Jennifer Lawrence interviewed former Federal Election Commission chair Trevor Potter about how…
1,349 viewsPanelists talked about the complexities and transparency issues associated with campaign financing. They focused on outside funding of campaigns since the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens Un…
442 viewsThe Senate Rules and Administration Committee held a hearing on campaign finance law, the first congressional hearing since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier in the month that struck dow…
5,942 viewsBill Burton and Trevor Potter spoke about the influence of super political action committees (SuperPACs) in the 2012 election. Trevor Potter, general counsel for Senator McCain’s 2000 and 20…
249 viewsPanelists compared the amount of corporate and union spending in the 2012 elections with prior election cycles following the Supreme Court’s decision on Citizens United v. Federal Election C…
516 viewsLaw professors and political scholars analyzed the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The 5-4 ruling from January 2010 eliminated restric…
1,339 viewsPanelists participated in a forum discussion of the politics of campaign finance laws. They addressed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, as well as its predecessors. They talked about…
105 viewsThree panels appeared before the Senate Rules Committee to address concerns over enforcement of campaign finance law. Senators McCain and Feingold testified on what they see as an unwillingn…
167 viewsOn the second day of public hearings regarding proposed regulation of “527” political groups the Federal Election Commission heard testimony from representatives of groups expressing their v…
187 viewsAttorneys and analysts talked about the Supreme Court case McConnell v. FEC and the court’s decision to uphold a campaign finance reform law. They talked about the opinions of the justices, …
82 viewsAttorneys talked about their efforts to persuade the federal courts to strike down federal campaign finance reform legislation and a potential hearing by the U.S. Supreme court on the issue.…
72 viewsParticipants talked to reporters about their complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission charging that Republican and Democratic Parties were trying to circumvent new legislation ba…
72 viewsThe panelists in this discussion hosted by the Brookings Institution spoke about the politics and constitutional issues surrounding campaign finance legislation. They answered questions from…
87 viewsThe panelists discussed problems in enforcing campaign finance laws. Rebecca Avila gave a local perspective on problems with policing politicians. After their prepared remarks panelists took…
60 viewsThe New York City Campaign Finance Board hosted a panel discussion on public funding and private funding in state campaigns.
49 viewsPublic Citizen hosted this discussion on campaign finance reform. Panelists debated limiting campaign contributions from political action committees to political parties. The panelists also …
46 viewsPolitical experts, voter education activists and others reviewed the spending in the November election and to propose new approaches to funding political campaigns by giving parties much gre…
34 viewsPanelists discussed the possibilities for federal campaign reform in the near future. They examined several proposals, including eliminating political action committees and restricting out o…
36 viewsCurrent news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers, interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes a…
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