It's not "hard", it's the phrase for campaign donations not regulated by the FEC
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What is the difference between "hard money" and "soft money ...  However, these terms are also used to refer to political contributions in the United ... on these rules can be found on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) website. Hard ... When cash is contributed to a political party with no limits attached to the ... Generosity may be its own reward, but some charitable giving also provides...
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Campaign finance in the United States - Wikipedia  Campaign finance in the United States is the financing of electoral campaigns at the federal, ..... These nonprofit organizations are not regulated by the FEC, provided that they do not coordinate with ... or defeat of candidates, thus making them subject to federal regulation and its limits on contributions to the organizations.).
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Chapter 4: Evaluation - Federal Election Commission  The discussion is not intended to be and is not exhaustive. ... Private donations are permitted during the primary election period, but ... Within a month of the enactment of the public funding law, its constitutionality was called into question. ... protection of free expression, since no significant political expression could be made...
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Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 - Federal Election ...  Major provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002: ... National party committees may not solicit funds for, or make or direct donations to ... Federal funds (hard money) are raised under federal limitations and prohibitions ... with an election, or its primary purpose is not activity in connection with elections and the...
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Political fundraising terms and definitions | CMDI  Jun 7, 2012 ... Currently, the FEC only requires a 527 group to file regular disclosure ... Best Effort: A phrase taken from Federal Election Commission regulations used ... The law increased the limits on hard money contributions, which can be given .... An exploratory committee does not have to file reports on its financial...
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Original version of "Newt Gingrich 'was fined $300,000 for ethics ...  Headline: Did Newt Gingrich pay a $300,000 ethics fine back in the 1990s? ... Super PACs aren't formally affiliated with campaigns, but they can still spend ... He became the first speaker to be sanctioned in this fashion by the House. ... Panel Supports Reprimand of Gingrich," Jan. 18 1997. Washington Post, "Gingrich to...
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Anonymous Speech and Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code  voters know its source.4 Candidates, however, are not the only ones with an interest ... its source.1". Third-party advocacy groups often avoid campaign finance ... describe a much more limited range of political speech."). .... The names of donors to section ... challenge.3" The disclosure provisions enacted within the tax code.
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election facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  On this basis election might be defined as a form of procedure, recognized by the ... the society and is therefore written into the rules of all sorts of nonpublic bodies, ... All that need be said here is that ordinary language about elections deals with ... at least, election is a good word, patronage is a bad word, and co-option...
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League Refuses to "Help Perpetrate a Fraud" | League of Women ...  Oct 3, 1988 ... ... DC "The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the presidential debate scheduled for mid-October because ... Neuman called "outrageous" the campaigns' demands that they control the selection of...
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The Bonfire of Public Opinion | Mother Jones  Aug 9, 2010 ... ... of Republican senators saying we need to press this issue, said a Senate GOP aide. ... That's what politics is all about. ... It would be nice to think that we just refuse to take the low road the way Republicans do, but I kinda doubt that. Democratic consultants can sling smears and fears with the best of them...
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Federal Budget Glossary - National Priorities Project  A bill that specifies how much money can be spent on a given federal ... Appropriations Committees in both the House and the Senate are ... An authorization bill gives a government agency the legal authority to fund and operate its programs. ... The Congressional Budget Office is the non-partisan branch of Congress that...
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News for Washington Square News  Partisan Wikileaks Are Not ... place in the democratic process.
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jeopardy/2522_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ... It's done with indoctrination & persuasion, not soap & water | Brainwashing ... PUMP YOU UP | This manufacturer of fitness equipment shares its name with a...
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enhancing access, opportunity & competition. - NYC.gov  Political Party Campaign Contributions-Currently, all candidates, including those ... Currently, the Charter generally requires that purchases of goods be made by the ..... In between, States and the federal government enacted reforms aimed at ..... to the recruitment and election of those men and women of ability and integrity.
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licenseplates archives . DCist  'Taxation Without Representation' Plates Return to Presidential Vehicles ... Columbia licence plates bearing the slogan "Taxation Without Representation" are once again affixed to a presidential vehicle, though perhaps not the one actually carrying ... The White House will switch the license plates on the official presidential...
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Dont put Bill Leak on trial  Let's try the Human Rights Commission ...  2 days ago ... A different situation, I concede, but surely the legal principles should still apply. ... who dare parody the truth and sell the ABC, SBS and privatise the BOM. ..... The main people who seem to defend section 18c are very self-righteous. .... unless a court of law agrees to enforce the decision of the Tribunal.
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Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies - People Server at UNCW  Definition: Arguments of this form assume that since something has not been ... to pity and argue that the pitiful state of the arguer has nothing to do with the truth of the proposition. ... (ii) A reasonable person would agree that our income statement is too low. ..... The term non sequitur literally means "it does not follow". In this...
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High Court Upholds Most of Campaign Finance Law - latimes  Dec 11, 2003 ... The 5-4 decision upheld nearly all of last year's broad campaign ... last year banned unlimited donations, known as "soft money," from ... But in one of four dissents, Justice Antonin Scalia said: "This is a sad day for the freedom of speech. ... Amendment is meant to protect: the right to criticize the government.
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Few Lawmakers Grieve As Supreme Court Justices Give Line-Item ...  Under President Clinton, the budget-cutting tool was neither the pork-slashing sword envisioned by ... again to give away part of its cherished power of the purse ... to rewrite bills he had already signed into law. ... the fiscal 1998 defense spending bill (PL 105-56)...
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WHAT A F$#KING JOKE  The Burning Platform  Jun 20, 2014 ... To determine otherwise means it is acceptable to subject to .... (It's probably because they don't have hands, and so can't vote.) .... Before long, victims of the gas attacks began filling hospitals, gasping and writhing in pain as they took their last ..... i am armed to the teeth with words from the ivory tower
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Will Rogers quotes on Politics - Will Rogers Today  ... 1923; "Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with ... "Congress is so strange; a man gets up to speak and says nothing, nobody ... be an optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one.