Article: REP. HODES CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION OF HIS ETHICS REFORM PROPOSAL

Article: REP. RYAN WELCOMES PROGRESS TOWARD RESTORING EARMARK ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 15, 2007 ;     595 words ... ... to delay debate. However, an agreement was reached between Democratic and Republican leaders to bring back earmark accountability and allow the appropriations process to move forward. "Congress needs to show taxpayers how it intends to ...

Article: 2005 campaign contributions and expenses for Magic ...
Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho);  February 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Gannon, R-Buhl, District 23 Campaign contributions Total $0.00 Campaign expenditures ... R-Grand View, District 23 Campaign contributions Qwest $300.00 Total $300 ... R-Twin Falls, District 24 Campaign contributions Total $0.00 Campaign expenditures ...

Article: Do campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures ...
Atlantic Economic Journal;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... extent to which capital markets view campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures as an ... evidence of a relation between firms' campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures and their ... view that capital markets consider campaign contributions and lobbying as an expense and ...

Article: A Preliminary Analysis of Campaign Contributions in ...
Journal of Private Enterprise;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... asked include how important are campaign contributions to determining election outcomes ... economics. Most of the research on campaign contributions concerns the elections of legislators ... for judicial office, and seek campaign contributions in the process. This paper takes ...

Article: Campaign Contributions Change Priorities, Not ...
The Washington Post;  July 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... This widely held view is that campaign contributions basically buy politicians. Through ... illustration of the real effect of campaign contributions and lobbying. Campaign contributions and lobbyists do not buy politicians ...

Article: Campaign contributions and access.
American Political Science Review;  September 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... important and pervasive view of campaign contributions is that they are given to promote ... access story with a model in which campaign contributions can act as signals of policy preference ... endogenous. The relationship between campaign contributions and access to legislators is ...

Article: The Supreme Court Shrinks the First Amendment.(campaign ...
National Right to Life News;  March 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... challenge to Missouri's limit on campaign contributions without once reciting the text ... candidate's election) and on campaign contributions (money given directly to a campaign ... have passed ever lower limits on campaign contributions. In a series of subsequent cases ...