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Updated Tuesday, March 9, 4:35 p.m.
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Party Contributions Edge Forward in 2009
A new report from the Federal Election Commission shows that overall receipts to party committees in 2009 grew 1.5 percent over the same period in the 2008 election cycle.
The increase was better for Democrats than Republicans. Democrats took in a total of $219.5 million between its three federal fundraising groups to post a 4 percent gain over 2007. Meanwhile, GOP party committees took in a total of $206.2 million in receipts for a decrease of less than 1 percent compared to the last non-election year.
Wall St. Lobbyists Up Pressure on Dodd
Financial services lobbyists are upping the pressure on Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Sen.
(Gold) Mining for Donors
Retired Army Lt. Col. Bill Russell’s campaign burn rate has raised concerns about the viability of his candidacy — and questions about the direct-mail firm he employs — according to local Republicans who could pick him as their nominee to run for the late Rep.
Vulnerable Democrats Targeted in $900,000 Ad Buy
The conservative advocacy group American Future Fund is dropping $900,000 on a round of television and radio ads urging a group of centrist Democrats to “start over” on the health care bill.
The ad buy comes on the heels of another $500,000 round of advertising the group ran on national cable during the run-up to the White House health care summit two weeks ago. Full storry
Protesters Mobilize as Insurers Put on the Ritz
When health insurance executives gather at the Ritz-Carlton on Tuesday for their annual policy conference, they may find the swank hotel won’t buffer them from the increasingly loud and bitter debate over health care reform legislation. Roll Call (paid content)
Ethics Panel Probed Lightly Into PMA
The Feb. 26 ethics committee report concluding that no House Members colluded with the PMA Group lobbying firm to exchange earmarks for campaign contributions indicated that the committee had been investigating the matter since the spring of 2009.
But Roll Call has been unable to locate a single Member of Congress or company that was interviewed or asked for documents by the ethics committee, and a variety of sources said they believe that the committee did virtually no additional investigation beyond the draft reports on seven Members that were produced by the independent Office of Congressional Ethics. Roll Call (paid content)
Reconciliation Not Easy to Influence
Graham Pleads With Democrats to Not Block Health Care Debate Industry stakeholders that have spent the past year working overtime to influence almost every aspect of the massive health care reform bill are now struggling to put their imprint on a final product that likely will be shaped by the arcane budget reconciliation process. Roll Call (paid content)
McConnell Rejects Controversial RNC Fundraising Pitch
The Senate’s top Republican on Sunday joined the chorus of criticism at the Republican National Committee’s fundraising strategy that openly acknowledged a plan to stoke the politics of fear.
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Minority Leader
Restaurants, Big Business Issue Call to Action
The restaurant industry and other business groups are ramping up their lobbying against an effort by House Democrats that could compel small companies to provide health care coverage for part-time employees. Roll Call (paid content)
Advocates Want to Cancel Haiti’s Loans
Graham Pleads With Democrats to Not Block Health Care Debate Nonprofit groups are pleading with Members of Congress and the Obama administration to quickly forget about nearly $1 billion in debt owed by earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Roll Call (paid content)
Filmmakers Push to Renew Tax Credits
Add independent filmmakers to the growing chorus asking Congress to extend certain tax credits, which has become the fiscal issue du jour. Roll Call (paid content)
Advocates Want to Cancel Haiti’s Loans
Graham Pleads With Democrats to Not Block Health Care Debate Nonprofit groups are pleading with Members of Congress and the Obama administration to quickly forget about nearly $1 billion in debt owed by earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Roll Call (paid content)
Braley, Schwartz, Murphy, Edwards Head ‘Red to Blue’ for DCCC
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has tapped four of its own to lead their challenger efforts in the 2010 cycle, which is expected to be tough one for the party. Full story
FEC Asked About Redistricting Soft Money
The census may have just started but political parties are already taking steps to maximize their advantages for elections and raising money.
A Democratic group called the National Democratic Redistricting Trust is asking the Federal Election Commission whether it can use federal lawmakers to raise soft money for a partisan redistricting organization, according to a new document released today by the agency.
Such redistricting organizations have raised large amounts of money in the past outside of contribution limits. The 527 organization IMPAC 2000 raised at least $7.7 million between 2000 and 2003 largely from unlimited donations as part of the Democratic Party’s redistricting group.
Similarly, the American Majority Project recently created a 527 in December aimed at helping Republicans gain “maximum impact on those races and issues in the 2010 election cycle that may apply to and/or impact redistricting.”
So far the new organization has already accepted donations as large as $50,000 from the tobacco giant Altria.
Testing a Court Decision and Campaign Clout
Six weeks after the Supreme Court sent shock waves through the political world by lifting long-held bans on corporate and union involvement in federal elections, one district is looking ripe for the new rules to be put into play.
Now that the case of Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission has opened the door for outside groups to spend unlimited sums on television advertising and other campaign expenditures in federal races, some Kentucky insiders believe that Democratic Rep.
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