POLI 100B CONGRESS
Congressional Elections: Campaign Contributions
- History:
- 1907 Tillman Act banned direct campaign contributions from Corporations
- 1947 Taft-Hartley Act banned direct campaign contributions from Labor Unions
- 1950s - 1960s -- Labor Unions formed Political Action Committees
(PACs). The first was COPE -- Committee on Political Education by the AFL-CIO.
- 1971 -- Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) and the 1972 Court decision
Pipefitters Local # 562 v. U.S. legalized PACs
- 1974 -- FECA Amended in response to Watergate Abuses
- 1976 -- Buckley vs. Valeo -- Supreme Court Strikes down many provisions of FECA
- 1979 -- Amendment to FECA allowed Party Committees to accept and spend unlimited amounts of money
during election campaigns for "getting out the vote" efforts or voter registration drives.
- 1995 -- Parties Permitted to make Independent Expenditures
- 2002 -- McCain Feingold Reforms
- 2004 -- Rise of the 527 Groups
- Campaign Spending By Winning House Candidates
- Campaign Spending By Winning Senate Candidates
- The Cost to Defeat a House Incumbent, 1984 - 2000
- Spending on House and Senate Campaigns: 1982 - 2002 (Real Dollars)
- Soft Money Receipts by Party: 1992 - 2002 (Real Dollars)
- Gini Coefficient for Individual Campaign Contributions: 1980 - 2002
- PAC Contributions by Ideology, 2002. L = Labor, C = Corporate, T = Trade, N = Unconnected,
U = Unknown, V = Cooperative, W = Corporation Without Stock
- Recent Origins of the Current Mess: Buckley vs. Valeo, 1976
- McCain-Feingold -- Contribution Limits
- McCain-Feingold -- Spending Limits
- McCain-Feingold -- Impact on Open-Seat Candidate Receipts
- McCain-Feingold -- Impact on Democrat/Republican Candidate Receipts
- McCain-Feingold -- Impact on Individual Contributions to House Candidates
- McCain-Feingold -- Impact on Party Fund Raising
- Stewart Figure 6.9 -- Why Incumbents Love the System (even after McCain-Feingold)
