It also helped spur the Federal Election Commission to bar the use of campaign contributions for non-campaign activities.
He says high-tech companies like Microsoft have big time lobbyists and make big campaign contributions.
Force big electronics companies to pay fealty to Washington power via lobbyists, campaign contributions, etc.
Melanie Sloan, the group's director, says the e-mails show him trading legislation for campaign contributions.
There are also some prominent Democrats who took campaign contributions from Indian tribes Abramoff represented.
Is Grassley's ploy a ham-fisted attempt to shake down rich Wall Streeters for campaign contributions?
They look at a policy and wonder whether it increases their power and generates campaign contributions.
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In the political realm campaign contributions and all sorts of influence peddling are commonplace.
To state the obvious, the poor are also less likely to make campaign contributions.
Regarding the money managers themselves, kickbacks, campaign contributions and various other forms of influence-peddling are commonplace.
And, when it comes to campaign contributions, they are the gifts that keep on giving.
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Bennett is listed in the special committee report as having received improper Fiesta Bowl campaign contributions.
Both Clinton and Schwartz have denied any link between the waiver and the campaign contributions.
Both Schumer and Gillibrand are up for re-election this year, boosting their campaign contributions.
Those courts are frequently run by judges elected with the help of lawyerly campaign contributions.
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The reimbursements would be a method for donors to avoid federal limits on campaign contributions.
The campaign contributions and fees to intermediary lawyers are all out in the open.
Rather, it prohibited campaign contributions without sufficiently precisely defining what was and was not covered.
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Hillary Clinton will return thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from an embattled fundraiser.
Today, Lockheed Martin spends fifteen million dollars a year on lobbying efforts and campaign contributions.
Roosevelt won a landslide victory in 1904, helped in part by vast campaign contributions from corporations.
The judge said hundreds of thousands of dollars of corporate campaign contributions should have been reported.
And I can cite to you Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti and now the campaign contributions.
Two House Democrats say they will donate campaign contributions from the embattled congressman to charity.
Mr Obama has some politics on his side, on the touchy subject of campaign contributions.
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So they hire lobbyists, step up their campaign contributions -- and block the change that people want.
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He mandates we buy insurance then scurrilously dispenses Obamacare waivers according to potential votes or campaign contributions.
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Unidentified Announcer: Joe Kerry(ph), he's a corrupt Chicago businessman who gave Steve Westly thousands in campaign contributions.
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Meanwhile, they were interviewed by a Special Senate Committee to Investigate Political Activities, Lobbying, and Campaign Contributions.
The individuals were reimbursed for their campaign contributions shortly after they made them, according to committee investigators.
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