Updated 11-6-97
Introduction
AllPolitics' Special Fund-Raising Section
TIME: Washington's Debating Campaign Finance (9/29/97)
TIME: The Wake-Up Call (2/3/97)
What's Legal And Not In Non-U.S. Citizen Donations
By Brooks Jackson/CNN
Brookings Working Group on Campaign Finance Reform
Common Cause president Ann McBride asserts spending limits are key, while Cato Institute president Edward Crane urges abolishing contribution limits. (25/11/96)
Campaign Reform
The Dole Proposal
Seizing on the flap over donations to the Democratic National Committee by non-U.S. citizens, GOP nominee Bob Dole in mid-October outlined a strategy for campaign reform which included four main proposals:
- A requirement that only American citizens be allowed to contribute funds to a candidate or political party.
- Creation of a bipartisan committee to study ways to eliminate soft money from labor unions and corporations to political parties.
- A ban on the use of mandatory contributions such as labor union dues for political purposes.
- Reforms to lessen the influence of PAC giving.
