Article: Top `soft money' contributors to Republican party committees: Jan. 1, 1995-June 30, 1996

The Republican Party's national fund-raising committees collected almost $76 million in "soft money" from corporations and wealthy individuals in the first 18 months of this election cycle, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records by the public interest lobby group Common Cause. That total is more than double the $35 million the GOP committees raised during the same period in 1991-92, the last presidential election cycle.

Corporations are barred from giving directly to federal candidates and individuals can give no more than $20,000 a year to national party committees to directly aid federal candidates. But both parties have separate accounts for soft money: ...

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