Campaign finance reform

Rep. Madison Cawthorn may be in trouble with the FEC over campaign finance violations, according to a recent report.

Although Sen. John McCain had indicated he would support the Democratic-backed DISCLOSE Act, he is opposing the bill along with the rest of the Senate GOP.

Sen. John McCain, the Republican author of a bipartisan campaign-finance law at the heart of the Citizens United case, filed a brief with Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse urging U.S. Supreme Court justices to uphold a Montana anti-corruption law that bans independent corporate political spending.

The White House has been silent ahead of the 2012 election on an executive order proposed last year that would require federal contractors to publicly disclose their political contributions.

Former Louisiana congressman and governor Buddy Roemer announced he has suspended his Republican presidential campaign because the party has turned [its] back on the Democratic process.

PACs and super PACs can now join forces under an umbrella organization, allowing them to donate directly to political candidates while also spending unlimited sums to promote or oppose candidates of their choice.

A constitutional amendment proposed in both the U.S. House and Senate would aim to clean up the nation's campaign finance system and overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC.

More American companies are bending to shareholder pressure to reveal their spending to sway political campaigns despite court decisions allowing unfettered corporate cash in elections, according to a study released on Friday.

Is W Spann LLC a shell company?

Stephen Colbert has won the right to use his television program to raise money for a Political Action Committee, a development that vindicates his satirical campaign but could have large implications for campaign finance reform.

It’s now as plain as the beard on Lincoln’s chin. The Republican Party that Honest Abe helped to found – that is, in its current Limbaughian form -- does not give a hoot about American global security. All it wants to do is remove Barack Obama from the White House, and it does not care if its actions – that is, its inaction – wrecks the painstakingly constructed goodwill between the U.S. and Russia and pushes the entire world back toward the shadow of possible nuclear annihilation.