FEC Votes to Curb Nonparty Donations
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The Federal Election Commission yesterday adopted new regulations that will make it significantly more difficult for independent political groups to continue to raise and spend millions of dollars in contributions for the 2006 ...
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Spouses don't belong on campaign payrolls, the House says, voting to end a practice that has benefited some members of Congress for years.
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Presidential candidates may return contributions solicited for the general election campaign and accept public financing with its stricter limitations, the Federal Election Commission ruled Thursday.
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A $500,000 donation by Republican beer baron Pete Coors to his own Senate campaign has triggered a new federal law that eases fund-raising restrictions for his Democratic opponent.
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The Senate and House make a controversial move to control alleged profiteering.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  ignored a White House veto threat and voted on Thursday to  allow government donations of contraceptives to family planning  groups outside the United States even though they engage in  abortion activities.
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Interest groups spending big donations on ads and voter outreach in the presidential race will face new limits after the fall election under rules approved by federal regulators. Campaign watchdogs criticized them as too little, too late.
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, who reiterated his commitment Tuesday to never accept campaign donations from special interest groups, recently returned $3,400 from lobbyists.
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Neither my constituents nor myself were bribed. A lot of the proposals in the White Paper are just that, proposals on which no votes involving constituency voters will be called.
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Many legislators repaid their midterm raises before the state Supreme Court ruled that the payments were illegal, but dozens either kept the money or said they donated it to charity, officials said Friday.
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The roll call involving members of Michigan&#39;s congressional delegation Thursday on a measure by which the House voted to prohibit the Supreme Court and other federal courts from taking up cases involving the Pledge of Allegiance.
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The US House of Representatives moved to prohibit US funding of the UN Human Rights Council, derided by one member as a &quot;poisonous talk shop,&quot; as part of a mammoth funding bill passed early Friday.
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The US House votes to ease curbs on funding stem-cell research, defying President Bush's threat to veto the bill.
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Sen. John McCain and others pushing for tougher campaign finance rules won a surprising ally Wednesday as they announced a renewed effort to block partisan interest groups from spending millions of dollars in big donations in congressional and presidential races.
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New campaign finance rules have prompted many Washington area companies to contribute less soft money into the presidential contest than they did four years ago.
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The Federal Election Commission said Tuesday it will appeal a federal judge's decision to strike down more than a dozen of the government's current rules on political fund raising.
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A federal judge has ordered the Federal Election Commission to enact tougher restrictions on how millions of dollars are spent on campaigns, saying that its rules have