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gop_jeff said:Read the bolded parts. Or did you forget about events that occurred four years ago?
Major provisions of the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA):
* A wholesale prohibition on soft money contributions and expenditure to national political parties -- unlimited donations nominally made for non-campaign purposes, but potentially used to influence federal elections.
* A prohibition on soft money contributions and expenditure to state and local political parties, with a few limited exceptions.
* Federal candidates and officeholders prohibited from accepting or spending soft money.
* A ban on supposedly non-partisan "issue ads" funded by soft money from corporations and labor unions - those referring to candidates for federal election without expressly advocating their election or defeat -- in the 60 days prior to a general election, or 30 days prior to a primary election.
* Disclosure of sources of finance for "electioneering communications" in excess of $10,000 per year.
* A political party spending money in a general election campaign must choose between making coordinated expenditures on behalf of its candidate, or independent expenditures on behalf of its candidate, but not both. (Ruled unconstitutional in McConnell v. FEC, but later upheld by the Supreme Court)
* Minors are prohibited from making contributions to candidates and political parties. (Ruled unconstitutional in McConnell v. FEC, but later upheld by the Supreme Court)
* Hard money legal limits raised:
o Limit for individual contributions per candidate per election increased from $1,000 to $2,000.
o Limit for individual contributions to National Party Committees increased from $20,000 to $25,000 per year.
o Limit for individual contributions to state and local party committees increased from $5,000 to $10,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCain-Feingold
So, by co-sponsoring a piece of legislation - that a majority of Senators must agree upon and must survive a veto by the president, youre implying that McCains keeping you from expressing yourself? Okaaaay.
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