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Advocacy.(LEAGUE MATTERS)(League of Women Voters)

Publication: National Voter
Publication Date: 01-OCT-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Leading up to the August recess, LWVUS President Mary Wilson, the LWVUS Advocacy staff and the Lobby Corps worked with the Congress on priorities set by the LWVUS Board.

On the campaign finance reform front, Wilson submitted a statement in support of the bipartisan Fair Elections Now Act...

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...for a Senate Rules Committee hearing in late June. The legislation would set up a system for public financing of Senate elections and allow qualified candidates to receive funds from the Senate Fair Elections Fund instead of relying upon money from private interests.

In its late June, 5-4 decision on Wisconsin Right to Life v. FEC, the Supreme Court said that corporate funding for some "issue ads" that mention candidates in the key period right before elections may not be prohibited by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), because those ads are free speech protected by...

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