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Campaign finance laws in the United States have been a contentious political issue since the early days of the union. The most recent major federal law affecting campaign finance was the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002, also known as "McCain-Feingold".
Bopp writes that "there may be too little money spent during political campaigns, not too much", because government is larger and more powerful than it should be, and at least often agree that campaign finance reform limiting spending on political campaigns is an unconstitutionally limit on "citizens' freedom of speech and association". [51]
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107–155 (text), 116 Stat. 81, enacted March 27, 2002, H.R. 2356), commonly known as the McCain–Feingold Act or BCRA (/ ˈ b ɪ k r ə / BIK-ruh), is a United States federal law that amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, which regulates the financing of political campaigns.
Campaign finance reform traces its roots to the turn of the 20th century. The enactment of civil service reform ended the old spoils system, whereby federal office-seekers and officeholders made ...
Oregon lawmakers gave final passage Thursday to a campaign finance reform bill that limits the amount of money people and political parties can contribute to candidates, following recent elections ...
The Election After Reform: Money, Politics, and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7425-3870-2. Samples, John (2006). The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-73450-7. Smilov, Daniel; Jurij Toplak (2007). Political Finance and Corruption in Eastern ...
Speaker Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis, a longtime proponent of campaign finance reform in Oregon, said the last time the Legislature approved significant campaign finance reform was in 1975 when it ...
The Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act, or DISCLOSE Act, is a federal campaign finance reform bill that has been introduced in the United States Congress since 2010.