FEC Highlights Spending Data on 2006 Senate Races
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The Federal Election Commission on Wednesday released a useful chart that details spending activity in the 2006 Senate campaign Ã¢ÂÂ which Democrats concluded with a net gain of the six seats they needed to garner a 51-49 working majority in the current 110th Congress.
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The AFL-CIO and its unions said Friday they will spend an estimated $200 million on the 2008 elections, with the nation's largest labor federation devoting a record $53 million exclusively to grass-roots mobilization.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 15  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the last two years, more than $29 million has flowed into campaign funds controlled by Chicago city officials and their challengers, and now it's easy for voters to identify the big contributors and see where the money is going.
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Roughly half of the money spent on all federal contracts in 2006 was awarded with little or no competition, according to a congressional report released yesterday.
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The Senate's top two Republicans have signed on to help their party fund-raising committee collect donations for the 2006 elections.
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Officials at Commerce Insurance, the state's largest auto insurer, contributed thousands of dollars to two influential Democratic state senators up for reelection this year, according to state campaign finance records filed this month.
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Candidates in two close Senate races that will help determine which party wins a majority in November began their final month of campaigning neck-and-neck in cash, campaign finance reports filed Friday show.
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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton ended 2006 with $11 million in her Senate account, money she can transfer to the presidential bid she began in January.
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Annual growth in U.S. health-care spending increased slightly in 2006 and continued to outpace inflation and the nation's overall economic growth, government researchers said in a report released on Tuesday.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) reported spending $7.8 million on Friday alone for an ongoing Ã¢ÂÂindependent expenditureÃ¢ÂÂ campaign that aims to boost the many vulnerable House Republican incumbents Ã¢ÂÂ mainly by attacking their Democratic challengers.
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The 81-15 roll call Wednesday by which the Senate voted to pass a $464 billion spending bill.
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Regrouping after heavy election losses, the Democrats' Senate fund-raising operation has paid nearly &#36;4 million in debts and recruited senators to raise money, enlist candidates and develop strategy for 2006.
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A look at projected spending for the government's 2005 budget year, which began Oct. 1, and in 2014, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee took a $5 million loan two weeks before the midterm election, allowing it to pour money into tight races that determined control of the U.S. Senate.
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Contenders for the major partiesÃ¢ÂÂ 2008 presidential nominations have filed fundraising reports for the yearÃ¢ÂÂs second quarter (April 1-June 30) to the Federal Election Commission ahead of SundayÃ¢ÂÂs deadline Ã¢ÂÂ and data from these reports are available at CQÃ¢ÂÂs Political MoneyLine (PML), Congressional QuarterlyÃ¢ÂÂs campaign finance Web site.
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CQPolitics.com today concludes its analysis of the 12 Senate contests next year in which the Democrats will be the defending party.
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Candidates who spent more than &#36;1 million of their own money trying to win election to Congress in 2004 struck out in nearly every case. Eight made it to the Nov. 2 election, but only one was victorious. The spenders, how much they spent and how they fared: