The following announcement arrived via email:
The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration is pleased to announce the publication of the Senate Cloture Rule, prepared by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. The last time such a… Continue reading
An Obama fundraiser. This does not count fundraising from Super PACs, which Obama won’t do—though other presidential candidates and Obama surrogates will.
Bloomberg BNA: “The Federal Election Commission deadlocked on an enforcement case involving charges that the Republican-leaning Super PAC American Crossroads illegally funded more than $450,000 in television ads that reproduced film footage from the campaign of Sen. Rob Portman… Continue reading
See this interesting article.
I discuss how the prevention of rent-seeking and the promotion of national economic welfare could justify some additional regulation of lobbying activities in my just-published Stanford Law Review article.
CRP: ‘Several nonprofit organizations that don’t disclose their donors but have been deeply involved in partisan politics during the last several years have received multimillion-dollar contributions from groups that are familiar players in Republican circles. The GOP nonprofits —… Continue reading
NBC29: ‘About 150 people will not get to vote next week. They registered with Organizing for America ahead of the Republican primary, and the third-party group failed to turn in the applications on time. The Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney Office… Continue reading