Dems Spent More, Got More in Last Days of House Campaign
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The latest campaign finance reports filed late Thursday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by the national partiesÃ¢ÂÂ House campaign committees show that both spent freely in the run-up and immediate aftermath to the Nov. 7 elections.
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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:
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WASHINGTON -- Democrats seeking votes for their Iraq-withdrawal plan have stuffed a war funding bill with billions of dollars for homeland security, healthcare, farms, New Orleans levees, home heating, and other causes.
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Although the Republican Party spent the runup to the 2006 midterm elections on the defensive, it managed to maintain its longstanding fundraising advantage over the Democrats .
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The leading Democratic candidates capped months of expensive advertising Wednesday with evening news appeals to Iowa voters as Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton focused on change and John Edwards relied on a laid-off worker to make his case.
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Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, each claiming a pair of early victories, now leave the concentrated campaigning of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina for an unwieldy and costly 10-day dash through 22 states that hold presidential primaries or caucuses Feb. 5.
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Congressional candidates spent a record &#36;911.8 million in last year's races, and several 2006 contests are already showing signs they will carry big price tags.
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WASHINGTON - With massive get-out-the-vote drives, Republicans made a final push Tuesday to tighten their grip on control of Congress while Democrats looked for a surge of support that would give them a shot of at least taking back the Senate.
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The national Democratic Party has spent millions on consultants, Internet services, catering and building state parties, entering the weeks before Election Day with only about one-fifth as much as the Republicans for races that could decide control of Congress.
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Democrats enter the fall campaign  with a clear edge in the high-stakes fight for control of the  U.S. Congress, riding a wave of momentum that has them  positioned to retake the U.S. House of Representatives and make  significant gains in the Senate.
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U.S. House members spent $20.3 million in tax money last year to send constituents what's often the government equivalent of junk mail Â meeting announcements, tips on car care and job interviews, surveys on public policy and just plain bragging.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; As the nation's trial lawyers again funneled tens of millions of dollars to Democrats and their causes in the last election, Republicans were crafting a strategy to choke off that money for future campaigns.
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The DemocratsÃ¢ÂÂ capture of a House majority in the 2006 elections has translated into a fundraising boon for the partyÃ¢ÂÂs national House campaign organization, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The committee brought in $8.6 million in September alone, according to its most recent report to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), more than tripling the $2.6 million in receipts reported by its partisan counterpart, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).
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Both political parties assumed millions of dollars in debts in the waning days of the congressional campaign as the election intensified and the prospects of a power shift became more apparent.
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The Republican committee working to retain GOP control of the House has $36 million in the bank going into the final stretch of the congressional campaign.
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House and Senate leaders were pushing for some legislative achievements before heading home to campaign.
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The House last night approved a $515.7 billion domestic spending measure that shaves billions from spending levels desired by Democrats and uses emergency spending and other tactics to challenge President Bush on his budget demands.