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Supreme Court Revisits Campaign-Finance Reform
Is the Supreme Court poised to overhaul the nation’s campaign finance laws? That’s the question as the court holds a special session today to rehear a case that could potentially change laws that restrict spending by corporations and unions on campaigns. The case centers on Hillary: The Movie, an unflattering 90-minute film about Hillary Clinton that the conservative group Citizens United produced during the 2008 campaign. Back then, the Federal Election Commission ruled the film was the equivalent of an attack ad and therefore came under the regulation of a 2002 campaign finance law that restricts spending by outside groups trying to affect the outcome of a campaign. Citizens United promptly sued, claiming the FEC was trying to suppress free speech. While the Supreme Court will weigh whether the FEC’s actions in regard to the Hillary film were correct, the focus of the debate has shifted to a larger question: should corporations and unions be treated differently from individuals when it comes to campaign spending? Whatever the court decides could affect decades of campaign finance law and potentially open a floodgate of money on the eve of a potentially pivotal election year.
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07/01/2009PoliticsThe Mind of Al Franken
…do so may well be So-tomayor's confirmation hearings. He already has said that he wants to ask her about campaign - finance reform . He's for it—especially since he's spent the last two years raising cash. Not only is Franken not clownish …
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06/16/2009PoliticsHealth-Care Head Fake
…which doesn't have as many cosponsors as it deserves) is an imaginative and sensible way to advance true campaign - finance reform . Instead of trying to take the money out of politics, it merely takes the big money out of the system. The …
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04/10/2009PoliticsWall Street Digs In
…firms, including Citigroup, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, formed a new lobby calling itself the Coalition for Business Finance Reform . Its goal: to stand against heavy regulation of "over-the-counter" derivatives, in other words customized contracts …
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12/20/2008The Global Elite15: Timothy Geithner
…International Economics, has drafted a 10-point list of necessary changes, from boosting bank capital standards to housing- finance reform . How many will Geithner have primary responsibility for? "About half," he says. "You don't get major regulatory …
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12/01/2008PoliticsChange 2.0
Just about a year before he would be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama set the bar for his presidency during a discussion in Nevada. Invoking Ronald Reagan and JFK before him, Obama distinguished between presidencies that had "put [America] on a fundamentally
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