campaign finance reform
American politics
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role of McCain
- In John McCain: Political career
…McCain became a champion of campaign finance reform; he collaborated with the liberal Democratic senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and, after a seven-year battle, the pair saw the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act signed into law in 2002. The legislation, which restricted the political parties’ use of funds not subject…
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soft money
- In soft money
…the late 20th century, strict regulations governed the source, amount, and use of donations to particular candidates (hard money), but few such laws applied to contributions for the general promotion of a political party’s message (soft money). In 2002 the U.S. Congress passed legislation that prohibited soft money contributions to…
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