Trade associations won a great victory in July when the Federal Election Commission FEC amended its regulations to allow corporate members of an association to use a payroll deduction system to forward employee contributions to the association's political action committee PAC. America's Community Bankers and COMPAC, its political action committee,...
America's Community Bankers and COMPAC, ACB's political action committee, on Aug. 29, 2003, petitioned the Federal Election Commission to make it easier for certain individuals to make campaign contributions by using payroll deductions. The petition builds on an advisory opinion issued Aug. 28, 2003, clarifying that executives of companies may...
San Fernando Valley Businessman and Political Figure to Re-Focus State's Postsecondary Education Lending Efforts NORTHRIDGE, Calif. -- The California Student Aid Commission recently announced that it has elected Peter Hankwitz as Chair of the Commission for 2008-09. Hankwitz's election comes just five months after his appointment to the...
FALLS CHURCH, Va., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Legal and Policy Center NLPC is today filing a formal Complaint with the Federal Election Commission FEC against Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) regarding his use of a rent-stabilized apartment in Harlem for a campaign office. The Complaint alleges that...
Judicial Watch, the public interest groupthat investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced todaythat it has filed separate complaints with the Federal Election CommissionFEC and the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee against Senator Barack Obama forallegedly accepting a below-market rate mortgage loan in 2005 not availableto the general consumer. According to the...
On March 25, Worth & Co. Inc. hosted a political fund-raising event for Republican congressional candidate Tom Manion at its offices in Pipersville, Bucks County. A complaint letter mailed recently to the Federal Election Commission by a former mayor of Riegelsville alleged that the event amounted to an illegal campaign...
Members of a new national commission onchildren and disasters have elected Mark K. Shriver, Vice President andManaging Director of Save the Children's U.S. Programs, as the commission'sfirst chair. The National Commission on Children and Disasters was created by an act ofCongress last December. Shriver and the nine other commissioners (full...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate approved Utah native Matthew Petersen's nomination to the Federal Election Commission late Tuesday. The confirmation not only puts a Utahn on the commission but fills the final slot on the commission, "enabling the FEC to act as a fully functioning body during...
Elected Officials and Community Leaders Officially Announce Federal Policy Recommendations NEW YORK, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Latino Commission on AIDS and its community partners join eight cities across the United States (Los Angeles, New York, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Puerto Rico, Miami, San Antonio and Chicago) in...
If the presidential primaries are any indication, Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama will find financial donors in New Orleans far more numerous and generous than his Republican opponent Sen. John McCain will. During the 2007-08 primary season, Obama boasted more than 300 times the number of...
WASHINGTON AFP — Democrat Barack Obama reported Saturday his most modest fundraising haul of the year following his unprecedented decision to reject public financing for his White House bid. Obama collected just under 22 million dollars in May, the last month of campaigning in his grueling nominating duel...
WASHINGTON AFP — Democrat Barack Obama reported Saturday his most modest fundraising haul of the year following his unprecedented decision to reject public financing for his White House bid. Obama collected just under 22 million dollars in May, the last month of campaigning in his grueling nominating duel...
Dr. Robert Pugach, medical director ofPacific Coast Urology Medical Center was recently elected Vice Chair of theAmerican Medical Association AMA Organized Medical Staff GoverningCouncil at their June 14-15 meeting in Chicago, IL. Dr. Pugach previouslyserved as Secretary and the Western States Caucus Chair of this section. The Organized Medical...
Issues report entitled "Broken: The Regulatory Process and the Voting Industry" which calls for substantive policy changes HOUSTON -- The Election Technology Council, an industry trade association representing providers of over 90% of the voting systems used in the United States, today issued a bleak assessment of the...
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Friday invalidated campaign finance rules that give wealthy donors broad latitude in underwriting expensive political ads. Limits on coordinated campaign spending apply too narrowly to time frames just before elections and should be toughened, the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon has raised over 60 percent more money than his GOP challenger, Jason Chaffetz, since last month's Republican convention in preparation for their primary election on June 24, according to new disclosure forms. Cannon is spending most of the campaign cash now, clearly taking...
WASHINGTON -- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW and Germantown, Tennessee resident Barbara Kaye Ginsberg filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission FEC today against Rep. Marsha Blackburn's campaign committee, Marsha Blackburn for Congress, and the committee's treasurer, Tea Hoffman. After receiving 33 letters from...
Under investigation by the Justice Department, former U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon has transferred all of his campaign money to a fund he established for his legal defense. Weldon, a Republican who represented Delaware County for 10 terms, transferred roughly $80,000 over several months from the Weldon Victory Committee to the...
WASHINGTON AFP — The Democratic Party raised 247 million dollars between January 1, 2007 and April 30, 2008, a sum that could prove crucial this election year, according to Federal Election Commission figures. The total is 24 percent more than the party raised during the same period in...
LWVUS President Mary Wilson, the LWVUS Advocacy staff and the Lobby Corps have been working on the priorities set by the LWVUS Board for 2008. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Concerning campaign finance reform, the League joined with coalition groups urging President Bush to take action ending the shut...
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