71. Campaign finance laws restrict individual donations to political campaigns. 72. Campaign laws prohibit funds from businesses and foreigners. 73. By spending down his campaign account to defend his seat in Congress, Kennedy avoids having to contend with state campaign finance laws that place restrictions on political spending. 74. Changing the campaign laws. 75. Changes in the campaign finance law will prove the toughest to pass, say reformers inside and outside Congress. 76. Campaign contributions are breaking all records, an offshoot of a good economy and a breakdown in campaign finance laws, causing a political inflation to set in. 77. Campaign finance laws, written in the wake of the Watergate scandal, attempt to minimize the influence of special interests by offering public campaign funds to presidential candidates. 78. Christopher Shays of Connecticut is most prominently associated with his struggle to overhaul the campaign finance law. 79. Clinton has made reforming campaign finance laws the focus of several recent speeches. 80. Clinton never fails to thank his donors, routinely, if a bit incongruously, pairing his thanks with a call for tighter campaign finance laws. |