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2005-01-25
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As the 109th Congress returns to Washington, D.C., this week, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) issued a report, Look Who's Not Coming to Washington 2005, profiling candidates from 45 states who competed for the chance to be among the Washington decision-makers, but lost out to a significantly better-funded opponent. |
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2005-01-09
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Late last week, the Connecticut Legislature passed campaign finance reform legislation that establishes a full "clean elections" public financing system for statewide and legislative races as well as a pilot municipal public financing system. |
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2004-10-28
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Congressional candidates' fundraising was a key determinant in primary election outcomes, in spite of the reforms enacted by the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), according to a report released by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. |
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2004-04-22
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Fundraising by so-called 527 organizations in the first quarter of 2004 pales in comparison to the record-breaking amount of hard money collected by the 2004 presidential candidates, according to a U.S. PIRG analysis of the latest data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). |
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2004-02-05
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With the final year-end 2003 committee reports in to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), political parties have collected more in hard money contributions in 2003 than they received in hard and soft money contributions combined in 1999, the last comparable pre-presidential election year. |
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2003-12-10
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While upholding restrictions on soft money and political advertising, the Supreme Court's failure today to strike down McCain-Feingold's radical increases in hard money contribution limits ensures that wealthy donors will continue to strongly influence who runs for office and who wins elections in the United States, according to the organizational plaintiffs in the Adams v. FEC case that challenged these increases. |
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2003-07-11
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The biggest fundraisers and largest hard money contributors dominated the 2002 congressional elections, according to U.S. PIRG's final analysis of Federal Elections Commission (FEC) data for the 2002 election cycle released today. |
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2003-05-02
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A diverse coalition of voters, candidates, and public interest organizations roundly criticized today's federal court ruling dismissing their challenge to significant increases in the amount that individuals are permitted to contribute directly to candidates' campaigns for federal office. |
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2003-01-03
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Many qualified, credible candidates for federal office lose elections, drop out of races, or decide never to run in the first place because of the role of big money in our political system, according to a new report released today by U.S. PIRG. |
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2002-10-15
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The biggest fundraisers and largest contributors dominated this year's congressional primaries, according to an analysis of October 2002 Federal Elections Commission (FEC) data for the 2002 congressional primaries released today by U.S. PIRG. |
