Gift ban, lobbying on state contracts targeted
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New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Monday will call for banning lobbyists&#39; gifts to lawmakers and an end to lobbying for government contracts in a platform aimed at the heart of power politics in Albany.
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Non-party groups spending millions of dollars in unlimited donations on ads and get-out-the-vote drives in this year's presidential race will face some new ground rules starting with the 2006 election.
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States with restrictions or bans on recorded political phone calls:
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The real estate industry and lobbyists, who provide millions in cash for New York City candidates, are trying to overturn a new law that would vastly reduce donation limits.
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WASHINGTON - Lawmakers revived a long-stalled effort Wednesday to block state and local governments from taxing Internet connections, in a last-minute agreement to ban the taxes until 2007.
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State Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes yesterday proposed rules for the introduction of competition into the state auto insurance market that would discourage or ban insurers from considering factors unrelated to a customer's driving history when setting rates.
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The campaign committee that spent &#36;35 million last year backing California's novel &#36;3 billion stem cell initiative plans to use its fund-raising prowess to fight a federal bill seeking to ban all forms of human cloning.
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A proposed law would limit foreign funding of churches and AIDS programs.
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Federal regulators recommended Tuesday that a newly formed political group cannot accept unlimited contributions from donors if it wants to advocate for or against candidates for federal office.
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December is a prime time for scam artists to prey on consumers looking for a year-end investment or making charitable donations, experts told a U.S. Senate hearing on Thursday.
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For a lot of consumers, especially come December, the line appears to be blurring between giving and receiving.
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By Reid J. Epstein And Rick Brand, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 6--Sen.
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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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By The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 7--Just because the Utah Senate rebuffed a proposal to fund transit  and road projects through sales tax increases doesn't mean the issue is dead,  say business lobbyists.
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The sponsors of the nation's campaign finance law introduced legislation Wednesday that they said would end the millions spent by outside groups in the presidential race.
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Top aides to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have skirted state regulations limiting gifts from special interest groups by spreading them around through their families, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.
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THE REGION Legislation has been filed to block a Romney administration plan for assigning high-risk drivers to auto insurers as an industry executive warned the initiative was illegal and could undermine group discounts. The bill filed by Senator Joan M. Menard, a Somerset Democrat, would bar implementation of the plan without legislative approval. At a hearing, John F. Donohue, chairman ...