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Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) stated at a July 30, 2009 US House Administration hearing that he "hates raising money for campaign. Last year, ABC News used a hidden camera to tape Rep. Lungren attending a fundraiser in Hawaii in conjunction with a conference for a DC based trade association. In the past the lobbyists could have paid for his trip but recent rules bar these trips. Lungren used a loophole to pay for his trip to get around the rules--he organized a campaign fundraiser at the same ...

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Christie Hefner, a business leader who signed on to the Public Campaign and Common Cause ad that appeared in the Washington, DC newspaper Roll Call, appears on Fox News and talks about the role of money in politics. This was the same day that the House Administration Committee held a hearing on the Fair Elections Now Act of which Hefner is supportive.

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Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) along with Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.), Walter Jones, Jr. (RN.C.), and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) introduce the bi-partisan Fair Elections Now Act which would make elections about voters and volunteers instead of big money donors. The Fair Elections Now Act will end the fund raising treadmill and allow our elected leaders to spend all of their times addressing the important issues facing our nation. ... Durbin Specter elections Jones Larson ...

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Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) along with Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.), Walter Jones, Jr. (RN.C.), and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) introduce the bi-partisan Fair Elections Now Act which would make elections about voters and volunteers instead of big money donors. The Fair Elections Now Act will end the fund raising treadmill and allow our elected leaders to spend all of their times addressing the important issues facing our nation. ... Durbin Specter elections Jones Larson ...

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Sam Waterston interview on ABC News on-line on the Fair Elections Now Act and the need to to change how we pay for our political campaigns for Congress.

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Sam Waterston interview on MSNBC discussing the Fair Elections Now Act which would change how we pay for political campaigns byd ending big money influence in Washington, DC

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A clip of Dolores Huearta talking about Clean Elections that was done for the Iowa Voter Owned Iowa Clean Elections (VOICE) Act.

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"Clean Elections: Changing the Face of America" is a video narrated by journalis "Clean Elections: Changing the Face of America" is a video narrated by journalist Bill Moyers on the influence the Clean Elections movement--or publicly financed elections--has had on politics and campaigns in Maine, Arizona, and North Carolina. The video includes interviews from politicians and citizens from Arizona and Maine as well as comments from national organizations including Public Campaign, Common ...

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Interviews with four elected officials under 35 who ran and won with their state's Clean Elections program.

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