Sentences with phrase «on election spending»

For it to work, legislation for fixed term parliaments, increased caps on election spending and caps on party donations must be prioritised.

Not exact matches

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

In her announcement, Gillibrand criticized the 2010 Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, which ruled that the government should not regulate the amount of money corporations and unions can spend on campaigns.

A longer election period has the effect of allowing political parties to spend more on their campaigns — the spending maximum is pro-rated, so that as the official election period grows, the spending limit rises proportionally.

In a quarterly - earnings call on Wednesday, Penegor said that the presidential election is weighing on consumer sentiment and, in turn, people are spending less at restaurants like Wendy's.

While NationBuilder and Rally remain bipartisan, Bloomberg reports that federal candidates and other political advocates have spent more than $ 46 million this election cycle on party - specific tech sites, including the Republican - leaning Targeted Victory and the Democratic - leaning Blue State Digital and Bully Pulpit Interactive.

Expanding on its allegations, WSJ said on Tuesday that hundreds of millions worth of unreported political spending flowed from public sources or programs intended for other purposes, including at least $ 140 million that was spent on charity projects to boost the party's election chances.

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

The Federal Election Commission has previously ruled that candidates and federal office holders may spend campaign funds on legal fees that are part of legal actions that would not have been necessary if they were not a candidate.

The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

Federal Election Commission records show that these groups, as well as five other grant recipients of Crossroads GPS, spent money on political ads, directly or indirectly, in the 2010 electioElection Commission records show that these groups, as well as five other grant recipients of Crossroads GPS, spent money on political ads, directly or indirectly, in the 2010 electionelection cycle.

That eclipses the $ 167,401 that Donald Trump has spent on his private security detail during his presidential election bid so far, according to campaign finance disclosures.

Morgan is a close friend of Trump's — Trump spent more time talking to Morgan on the phone after the election than he did with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Within hours of the presidential election, Washington politicians turned to the most urgent issue facing them: the fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, when more than $ 100 billion in automatic spending cuts and $ 500 billion of tax increases will be triggered.

As of last week, SuperPACs had spent $ 228,363,178 on the 2012 elections.

Now, this is an election year and spending for science research, among other things, is on the Tea Party chopping block.

He added: «Crooked Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars more on Presidential Election than I did.

Sanders, who has spent the last four days campaigning in Minnesota, is hoping to win the State in the Super Tuesday primary election on March 1st, 2016.

Not too long after that, Cuban turned on the Republican candidate and spent the rest of the election cycle as one of his most outspoken critics.

And, of the approximately $ 1 billion spent on the election by both parties, around $ 54 million has been spent on digital advertising, including mobile.

Trump's plan to increase infrastructure spending has sent metals and mining stocks on a wining streak since his election on Nov. 8.

A version of this article appears in print on November 28, 2009, on Page A14 of the New York edition with the headline: With Late Rush, Mayor Spent $ 102 Million on Election.

The Supreme Court recently freed corporations to spend more money on aggressive election ads.

«The group knows that it can do some candidate election work, but that such work can't be its primary activity — i.e., it has to spend more than half of its budget on non-candidate-election work,» Ryan told The Daily Beast when provided documentation about the organization.

Further, according to BofA - Merrill's analyst team at a midyear press conference on Wednesday in New York, any positive budgetary effect of the tax increases would be overshadowed by the growing burden of the U.S. debt ceiling as spending and hiring decisions are put on hold and the election heightens partisanship.

Apart from the occasional sound - bite on military spending, the Iraq war, and missile defence, Canada's role in the world was not part of the mainstream election debate.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

Trump's charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, faced intense scrutiny during the election for spending money on items like a $ 20,000 portrait of Trump.

on his ability to push through other items on his agenda, such as tax reform, infrastructure spending and deregulation — the promise of which has helped propel stocks upward since his election.

I'm currently spending more time exploring emerging security risks and working on election security.

The Conservatives are playing up low - cost initiatives such as action on cross-border price differences because they've restricted spending to balance the books by 2015, expected to be an election year, and don't have the cash right now for major tax cuts or lavish program spending.

The ruling, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08 - 205, overruled two precedents: Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a 1990 decision that upheld restrictions on corporate spending to support or oppose political candidates, and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, a 2003 decision that upheld the part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that restricted campaign spending by corporations and unions.

«Today's budget delivered on the government's election promise to boost spending for social programs and stimulate growth in key sectors of our economy.

He spent more than $ 60 million to win election in 2000 to the United States Senate from New Jersey on a liberal platform.

WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

Since the November election, in fact, the company has gained more than 44 percent on optimism over President Trump's pledge to spend $ 1 trillion on U.S. infrastructure.

In the 2015 election, Trudeau ran on an economic platform that touted deficit - financed infrastructure spending and a boost in federal benefits for families with kids.

It has been previously reported that a Russian troll farm spent $ 100,000 on Facebook advertisements to sway the mindset of the public during the 2016 presidential elections.

In addition to being ahead of Trump in polls in pivotal states, Clinton has maintained a staff of about 700 for months, opened up offices across the country and already spent $ 67 million on general election ads.

And other big potential Republican priorities for 2018 — including potential bills to boost infrastructure spending and cut back on entitlement programs — are now in limbo as every last vote comes under the election - year spotlight.

For, as the Public Citizen project US Chamber Watch reminds us, the Chamber, as a 501 (c) nonprofit, «is not legally required to disclose the sources of the money it independently spends on elections.»

It notes that authority to spend money on both missions will come through supplementary appropriations before Parliament, but given that an election is expected this fall it will likely be a year, or more, before those figures are tabled.

The monograph I proposed to write would have addressed the activities of the United States Chamber of Commerce, specifically its spending on federal elections.

The Chamber, like other groups organized under section 501 (c) of the tax code, is not legally required to disclose the sources of the money it independently spends on elections.

Americans for Financial Reform reported that the financial sector spent $ 2 billion on political activity in the 2016 election cycle, including $ 1.1 billion in campaign donations and the rest for lobbying.

Spending on goods was slow in the first quarter of the year, despite rising consumer confidence since President Trump's election.

While I spent a considerable amount of time knocking on doors for candidates in Edmonton, I was also working with a group of MLAs, lawyers and former PC cabinet ministers on what would have been the plan to transition the Liberals into government if the party had won that election ten years ago today.

In the last US election over $ 100 million was spent on private polling for the various parties.

Zuckerberg first dismissed the idea that Russia exploited the social media platform, then apologized after discovering that Kremlin - linked companies spent $ 100,000 on 3,000 ads before, during and after the 2016 election.