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2006-01-25
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing today on how Congress should respond to the recent lobbying and ethical scandals involving Jack Abramoff and his associates. |
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2005-11-02
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Winning state senate candidates who run in safe districts out fundraise their opponents 37-to-1 according to analysis written by Research for the Rest of Us and released today by Ohio PIRG noting, for the first time, the connection between gerrymandering and campaign financing. |
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2005-11-02
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The Online Freedom of Speech Act is on the House Suspension Calendar and is scheduled for a vote on Wednesday, November 2, 2005. |
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2005-09-27
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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the constitutionality of Vermont’s limits on campaign spending, setting the stage for a possible sea change in the way American political campaigns are financed. |
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2005-09-09
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U.S. PIRG will soon release a report that details the fundraising advantages incumbents have enjoyed in recent elections and how that advantage is increasing. |
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2005-08-02
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The U.S. Supreme Court should use the Vermont case Randell V. Sorrell to clarify the law on campaign spending limits, a broad spectrum of legal and policy experts asserted today. |
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2005-06-28
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House Speaker Hastert Asked to End Ethics Impasse in House: More than two dozen voters in House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s (R-Ill.) congressional district today joined four national public interest groups in calling upon the speaker to assert his leadership and break the impasse on ethics enforcement in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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2005-06-28
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USPIRG calls upon House leadership to appoint an outside counsel to investigate allegations of ethics violations committed by Representative Tom DeLay. |
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2005-05-18
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Statement of Gary Kalman, Democracy Advocate |
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2005-04-20
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The House Administration Committee heard testimony today on The 527 Fairness Act, HR 1316, introduced by Representatives Pence and Wynn. This bill, dressed up as reform, represents a wholesale attack on the progress made by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA). |
