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To Allison, at the Sunlight Foundation, this looks much like the so-called soft-money era of the 1990s when the national party committees solicited seven-figure checks from corporations, unions and the wealthy.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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That suit, unsuccessful in the lower courts, concerned contribution limits to political parties known as "soft-money," which are at the heart of the act.
Supreme Court won't hear new campaign finance challenge Robert Barnes 2010
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This the Keynesians would never do, because it is the core of their entire soft-money religion.
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The MDBs frontloaded their grants and lending to these countries in 2009 and 2010; their soft-money coffers now await approval in the United States and other legislatures of a critical new round of cash.
Nancy Birdsall: This Time Really Is Different (Is the Money There for Europe and the Rest of the World?) Nancy Birdsall 2011
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The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law of 2002 imposed limits on soft-money contributions, which Congress found were often used to seek influence with politicians.
Courts Rule on Funding of Campaigns Jess Bravin 2010
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The Republican National Committee and other groups contended that the logic of Citizens United also should topple the soft-money restriction.
Courts Rule on Funding of Campaigns Jess Bravin 2010
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The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law of 2002 imposed limits on soft-money contributions, which Congress found were often used to seek influence with politicians.
Courts Rule on Funding of Campaigns Jess Bravin 2010
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The Citizens United decision struck down a portion of McCain-Feingold, but didn't address the soft-money rule.
Courts Rule on Funding of Campaigns Jess Bravin 2010
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The Citizens United decision struck down a portion of McCain-Feingold, but didn't address the soft-money rule.
Courts Rule on Funding of Campaigns Jess Bravin 2010
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The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law of 2002 imposed limits on soft-money contributions, which Congress found were often used to seek influence with politicians.
Courts Rule on Funding of Campaigns Jess Bravin 2010
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