WaPo: The House Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill last week that included little-noticed provisions to hobble executive branch efforts to mandate campaign finance disclosure by federal contractors and other corporations. The bill would also prohibit the IRS from… Continue reading

CCP: The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) today released a report by Allison R. Hayward, an election law attorney in California, entitled “Eternal Inconsistency,” on the history of how the IRS has, according to the report, “been almost universally… Continue reading

Allison Hayward oped for USA Today: Two years ago, Lois Lerner of the IRS revealed that it unfairly targeted and delayed Tea Party applications for tax exemption. While the IRS has apologized and promised reform, the agency has not fixed… Continue reading

Miriam Galston‘s WaPo oped: As the 2016 presidential and congressional races heat up, many people increasingly worry about the large amounts of “dark money” from undisclosed sources being used to finance election campaigns. A recent ill-conceived statement by Internal … Continue reading

Trip Gabriel for the NYT: One supporter present was Foster Friess, a wealthy investor whose multimillion-dollar donations in 2012 helped Mr. Santorum remain in the race long after he might have quit. Mr. Friess, in a black cowboy hat, said… Continue reading

Scott Blackburn WSJ oped.

Interesting.

CNN reports.

Bloomberg: The IRS may be trying to block the tax exemption of one of the largest politically active nonprofit groups, Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, an organization founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove. The oblique disclosure can be found between… Continue reading

Following up on this post, see here.

Politico reports.