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The New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB) is an independent New York City agency that serves to provide campaign finance information to the public, enable more citizens to run for office by granting public matching funds, increase voter participation and awareness, strengthen the role of small contributors, and reduce the potential for actual or perceived corruption.
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding campaign finance laws and free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The court held 5–4 that the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from ...
93–443 88 Stat. 1263) Website. www .fec .gov. The Federal Election Commission ( FEC) is an independent agency of the United States government that enforces U.S. campaign finance laws and oversees U.S. federal elections. Created in 1974 through amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act, [3] the commission describes its duties as "to ...
The first federal campaign finance law came in 1867 and banned federal officials from asking Navy yard workers for money. Then in the mid-1940s Congress tried to ban labor union contributions to ...
Tribune. Apr. 16—One of New Mexico's senators and all three of the state's representatives in Congress are up for reelection this fall, but when it comes to fundraising only two races have much ...
The letter from Stevens to the Registry also accused Mayor McFarland of violating the $1,600 limit on accepting campaign donations from individuals: Five individual contributions, reported by ...
Political campaigning. Campaign finance, also known as election finance, political donations or political finance, refers to the funds raised to promote candidates, political parties, or policy initiatives and referendums. Donors and recipients include individuals, corporations, political parties, and charitable organizations.
Oregon lawmakers gave final passage Thursday to a campaign finance reform bill that limits the amount of money people and political parties can contribute to candidates, following recent elections ...