McCain-Feingold Act

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McCain-Feingold Act

Legislation in the United States, passed in 2002, that changed the way that campaigns for federal political offices are financed. It banned soft money contributions, which were unregulated, usually large, contributions to the national party committees, instead of individual candidates. It also required political advertisements to state what person or group paid for them.

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soft money			The 2002 McCain-Feingold Act bars companies from spending their treasury funds on electioneering communications, a prohibition upheld by the court in 2003. SPENDING ON POLITICS? TELL SHAREHOLDERS by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy / BusinessWeek With Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in the majority, the court upheld the McCain-Feingold Act against a free-speech challenge by a 5-4 vote in 2003. Campaigns, guns and jails: states have a lot at stake in the Supreme ... by Savage, David G. / State Legislatures So when, early this week, The Wall Street Journal carried a report from the reformist group Public Citizen about the extent to which bundlers broke the spirit of our country's campaign-finance-reform law -- the McCain-Feingold Act -- it was a gauntlet dropped in front of the party in position to enact real reform. OUR VIEW IN COSTLY ELECTION'S WAKE, GIVE US REAL CAMPAIGN REFORM by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)			Maturity Phase Maturity Spread maturity value Maun Mauritanian Ouguiya Mauritian Rupee Max Pain Maximizer Maximum Capital Gains Mutual Fund Maximum Expected Return Criterion Maximum Loan Amount Maximum Loan-to-Value Ratio Maximum Lock Maximum Price Fluctuation Maximum Return Criterion May Day May Expand Mayorista MBIA, Inc. MBO MBS Clearing Corporation MBS depository MBS servicing MBSCC MC McCain-Feingold Act McCarran-Ferguson Act McClellan Oscillator McClellan Summation Index McCulloch v. Maryland MCF McFadden Act McMansion MD MDA MDL Me-Too Product Me-Too Response Meals and Entertainment Expense mean Mean of the sample Mean Return Mean reversion mean term Mean-Variance Analysis Mean-variance criterion Mean-variance efficient portfolio meander line Measurement Error Measurement Noise measurements			MCCAA MCCAB McCabe Adjunct McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity McCabe Measure McCabe's Artificially Intelligent Tipper McCabe's cyclomatic number McCabe-Thiele diagram McCabe-Thiele method MCCAC MCCAD MCCADAR MCCAF MCCAG Mccain McCain Feingold McCain Feingold act McCain Feingold Act of 2002 McCain Student Center McCain, John McCain, John Sidney McCain, John Sidney, 3d Mccain-feingold McCain-Feingold Act McCain-Feingold Act of 2002 Mccains McCall's festoon McCall's festoons McCall's festoons McCall's festoons McCall's instrument McCall's instrument McCall's instrument McCall's instrument McCall's instrument McCall, Samuel Walker McCall, Tom McCalls Dam State Park McCallum, Daniel C. MCCanada McCandless Township Sanitary Authority McCanse Readiness for Death Instrument McCAP McCardell, Claire McCarran Act McCarran Ferguson Act McCarran Ferguson Act of 1945 McCarran Internal Security Act McCarran Internal Security Bill McCarran, Patrick McCarran, Patrick Anthony McCarran-Ferguson Act McCarran-Ferguson Act McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945

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