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2010-03-11
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Trenton, March 11 – Due to this winter’s atrocious Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United vs. FEC, corporations can now spend unlimited funds on advertisements for or against Members of Congress, without seeking approval or even informing their shareholders. | |
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2010-02-11
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February 11, Trenton- Today Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Chris Van Hollen introduced a series of strong reforms in response to the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United ruling. | |
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2010-01-21
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Today’s Supreme Court decision in Citizen’s United vs. Federal Election Commission will significantly expand the role that the most powerful corporations play in election financing. | |
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2009-11-12
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Despite crumbling infrastructure, in 2008 only about 10 percent of transportation earmark dollars went to repairs. | |
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2009-05-06
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A new NJPIRG Law and Policy Center study estimated that over $33,467,910.00 of public money from 100 counties was spent on simple registration implementation and error-correction issues in 2008. | |
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2008-03-11
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A statement Gary Kalman, the Director of our federal lobby office, on the ethics oversight rules passed by Congress. | |
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2007-05-27
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Today’s votes on lobby reform take another important step toward reining in the corruption that plagued the last Congress. | |
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2007-03-28
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We write to thank you for your leadership on election reform at the outset of the 110th Congress with the introduction of the Count Every Vote Act (S. 804) and to let you know that U.S. PIRG supports your efforts to improve the workings of our democracy and remove barriers to voter participation. | |
