Category: FEC

July Quarterly Reports

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 21, 2009
Categories In FEC

Ready for the stories about what campaigns did with their money during the second quarter? The Hill reports on what the Obama campaign disclosed.

Health Industry Contributions to Sen. Baucus

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 21, 2009
Categories In FEC

The Post gives front page treatment to health care industry efforts to support Sen. Baucus. As his committee has taken center stage in the battle over health-care reform, Chairman Baucus (D-Mont.) has emerged as a leading recipient of Senate campaign contributions from the hospitals, insurers and other medical interest groups hoping to shape the legislation […]

Public Financing Issues

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 20, 2009
Categories In Const Law Issues, FEC

Visiting Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission David Mason wrote this article for the latest edition of The Federalist Society’s Engage. In an era of broad-based Internet fundraising, public financing begins to look like a cure in search of a disease. Even worse, the super-subsidies required to […]