Campaign Law Map

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  • FECA

    Designed to regulate funds given to the candidates.
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    How much do we spend of funding?

    House incumbent: $1.7 million
    House challenger: $700,000
    Senate incumbent: $13 million
    Senate challenger: $5 million
    President: $2.5 billion
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    Fears that arose with high cost in campaigns.

    People were afraid that people who couldn't aford to campaign before would be elected.

  • PAC

    Takes donations and uses the money to campaign against candidats, ballot initiatives, ect.

  • Citizen United

    Tries to restor govornment controle to the citizens.

  • Independed Expenditures

    Expenditures that are not conected to a candidat's political party.

  • Soft Money

    By this time parties raised about $463 milion using soft money

  • The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act

    Baned soft money

  • Supreme Court Ruling

    The Supreme Court Ruled that there would be no change in campaign funding.

  • Citizens United V. Federal Election Commission

    Court ruling esaplished the curent wid-open campaign-financing system.