Campaign Practices: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Government Operations of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12638 and H.R. 13539 to Regulate Campaigns for Election to Public Office in the District of ColumbiaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 423 pagini |
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... figures will be readjusted periodically , under the legis- lation , to meet the demands of inflation . These limitations deserve careful scrutiny to insure that they realistically reflect the cost of campaigning . Senators Eagleton and ...
... figures will be readjusted periodically , under the legis- lation , to meet the demands of inflation . These limitations deserve careful scrutiny to insure that they realistically reflect the cost of campaigning . Senators Eagleton and ...
Pagina 10
... figure will be somewhat lower , given the difficulty of raising political funds on a broad base anywhere . H.R. 12638 ... figures are not compiled in a readily useable manner , and are not totalled . Spokes- men for both cities said that ...
... figure will be somewhat lower , given the difficulty of raising political funds on a broad base anywhere . H.R. 12638 ... figures are not compiled in a readily useable manner , and are not totalled . Spokes- men for both cities said that ...
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... figures listed above . since the totals did not reflect committee contributions , or outstand- ing debts . Therefore , these figures are not definitive , and should be used with some caution . I hope that this information will be ...
... figures listed above . since the totals did not reflect committee contributions , or outstand- ing debts . Therefore , these figures are not definitive , and should be used with some caution . I hope that this information will be ...
Pagina 71
... figures left out in the Chairman's figure , and , apparently , left too low in our bill H.R. 12638 . Mr. MURPHY . I would like to suggest that we do not state the level is too low . We suggest that it might be too low . Mr. FAUNTROY . I ...
... figures left out in the Chairman's figure , and , apparently , left too low in our bill H.R. 12638 . Mr. MURPHY . I would like to suggest that we do not state the level is too low . We suggest that it might be too low . Mr. FAUNTROY . I ...
Pagina 71
... figures left out in the Chairman's figure , and , apparently , left too low in our bill H.R. 12638 . Mr. MURPHY . I would like to suggest that we do not state the level is too low . We suggest that it might be too low . Mr. FAUNTROY . I ...
... figures left out in the Chairman's figure , and , apparently , left too low in our bill H.R. 12638 . Mr. MURPHY . I would like to suggest that we do not state the level is too low . We suggest that it might be too low . Mr. FAUNTROY . I ...
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1973 General Election ADAMS advertising Amendment amount appointed ballot bill Board of Elections BRECKINRIDGE BROCK ADAMS campaign contributions campaign expenditures campaign finance Campaign Finance Reform ceilings Chairman citizens City Council color Columbia Election Commission conflict of interest Congress Congressman contract contributions and expenditures corporations costs Counsel Court Delegate Democrats Diggs disclosure District of Columbia Division election campaign electoral process employees enforcement FAUNTROY Federal Election feel filed FRASER funds going Hatch Act HOGAN home rule independent individual kind legislation limitations lines lobbying Mayor MURPHY organization paign person political campaign political committee political party primary primary election prohibition proposed provisions public financing question Radio rate card registration regulations responsibility spending staff statement Subcommittee Sunday testimony Thank tion Truth-in-Lending Act vote voters ward Washington week WHUR
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Pagina 194 - We cannot accept the view that an apparently limitless variety of conduct can be labeled "speech" whenever the person engaging in the conduct intends thereby to express an idea.
Pagina 202 - Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public...
Pagina 259 - ... loan, advance, or deposit of money, or anything of value, and includes a contract, promise, or agreement, whether or not legally enforceable to make a contribution; (e) The term "expenditure...
Pagina 259 - expenditure" includes a payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, or gift of money or anything of value, and includes a contract, promise, or agreement, whether or not legally enforceable, to make an expenditure. (c) The term "person" includes an individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, and any other organization or group of persons.
Pagina 202 - No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.
Pagina 201 - We need not suppose that when power resides in an exclusive class, that class will knowingly and deliberately sacrifice the other classes to themselves : it suffices that, in the absence of its natural defenders, the interest of the excluded is always in danger of being overlooked; and, when looked at, is seen with very different eyes from those of the persons whom it directly concerns.
Pagina 265 - Commission issued under subsection (b) of this section, issue an order requiring compliance therewith ; and any failure to obey the order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt thereof.
Pagina 198 - But, although the rights of free speech and assembly are fundamental, they are not in their nature absolute. Their exercise is subject to restriction, if the particular restriction proposed is required in order to protect the State from destruction or from serious injury, political, economic or moral...
Pagina 266 - ... the establishment, administration, and solicitation of contributions to a separate segregated fund to be utilized for political purposes...
Pagina 198 - For example, the ability of new technology to produce sounds more raucous than those of the human voice justifies restrictions on the sound level, and on the hours and places of use, of sound trucks so long as the restrictions are reasonable and applied without discrimination. Kovacs v. Cooper, 336 US 77 (1949). Just as the Government may limit the use of sound-amplifying equipment potentially so noisy that it drowns out civilized private speech, so may the Government limit the use of broadcast equipment.