Sentences with phrase «amendment on campaign finance»

He has called a June 3 hearing of the Judiciary Committee to consider an amendment on campaign finance proposed by Colorado Senator Mark Udall.

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The event has drawn the ire of campaign finance reform advocates, who have dubbed Grisanti an «enemy of reform» (props to the late Ed Koch are necessary here) for refusing to break with his fellow Republicans in their collective «no» vote on the hostile amendment offered by the Democrats that would have created a public campaign finance system.

Cuomo has called for closing the LLC loophole in campaign finance law as well as an agreement on requiring officials convicted of corruption to surrender their pensions through a constitutional amendment.

They include adoption of early voting in New York, same - day voter registration, public financing of campaigns, and constitutional amendments to impose term limits on elected officials.

Those issues included closing the «L.L.C. loophole» in campaign finance, amending the SAFE Act, passing GENDA, a law banning discrimination on the grounds of gender identity, and no amendments to raise the age of adult criminal culpability.

And campaign finance reform isn't likely because neither party would support meaningful change and are generally protected on first amendment grounds.

Assembly Democrats on Friday evening released a package of ethics and campaign finance reform measures including limits to outside income, while holding out for negotiations for a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture by public officials convicted of corruption.

An amendment to state campaign finance law months before the 2014 campaign season began allowed state political parties to make unlimited payments on behalf of most candidates for organizational expenses.

The Democratic - led Assembly on Tuesday released its one - house budget resolution that includes income disclosure proposals as well as campaign - finance reform measures, but does not embrace the plan released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his budget amendments.

They include adoption of early voting in New York, same day voter registration, public financing of campaigns, and constitutional amendments to impose term limits on elected officials.

Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy says he'd rather see the Congress craft a constitutional amendment to overturn recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on campaign finance than have states call a constitutional convention to address the issue.

Democratic Sen. Mike Gianaris of Queens stopped by Capital Tonight on Monday to tout his conference's ethics proposal that includes public financing of political campaigns, restrictions on using campaign dollars for criminal defense and stripping those convicted of public corruption of their pensions through a constitutional amendment.

By contrast, the brief, shared with The New York Times by its drafters, cites past Supreme Court rulings dear to conservatives, including the Citizens United decision lifting restrictions on campaign financing, and a Washington, D.C., Second Amendment case that overturned a law barring handgun ownership.

While the backers of Amendment 64 promoted the idea of raising $ 40 million for schools front - and - center in the 2012 campaign to legalize pot in Colorado, they did not provide voters with context on how much of a dent that makes in school finance.

Of course, he also has had some significant losses — for example, on school desegregation (Parents United); the Second Amendment (Heller); and campaign finance (Citizens United).