Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) is among those who still favor Levin's stronger language on issue ads.
The subject of the interview was the Democratic National Committee's issue ads in the 1995-96 time period.
R. blitz modeled after a U.S. political campaign, with issue ads, town-hall meetings, focus groups and overnight polling.
Snowe and Jeffords endorsed the bill when Democrats agreed to accept their compromise language on regulating so-called issue ads.
The largest segment of the issue ads, about 24%, focuses on health care, followed by the environment and gun control.
They are also working with supporters of the bill on compromise language to regulate issue ads, a compromise supported by Democratic Sen.
Most likely, she says, they'll stay within the well-defined guidelines for political giving rather than run issue ads in the last days before an election.
At one point he accepted that issue ads might make a nonsense of existing law, but implied it might be the law that needed changing.
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Further, the Justices struck down part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred union and corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election campaigns.
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The bill would also set limits on so-called issue ads, political advertisements ostensibly about an issue but with the practical effect of hurting or helping a specific candidate.
Clinton was interviewed for 90 minutes in the Treaty Room of the White House residence Monday about his role in issue ads produced in 1995-96 by the Democratic National Committee.
It's considering two alternatives: First, allow corporations (which include nonprofits) and unions to use their treasury funds to pay for issue ads, but require that this funding be reported to the FEC.
The McCain bill, and its companion bill in the House, would set limits on so-called issue ads -- political advertisements ostensibly about an issue, but with the practical effect of hurting or helping a specific candidate.
The McCain-Feingold bill and its companion bill in the House would set limits on so-called issue ads -- political advertisements ostensibly about an issue but that have the practical effect of hurting or helping a specific candidate.
Take the restrictions on phoney issue ads.
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McCain and Feingold initially sought to have issue ads banned entirely, but a compromise provision inserted into their bill during Senate consideration now calls for a moratorium on the distribution of such ads 60 days out from Election Day.
McCain and Feingold initially had sought to have issue ads banned entirely, but a compromise provision inserted into their bill during Senate consideration now calls for a moratorium on the distribution of such ads 60 days out from Election Day.
The McCain-Feingold legislation would curb unlimited campaign contributions to political parties and restrain spending by parties and outside groups on so-called "issue ads" that attack candidates by name but escape legal limits by stopping just short of advocating a vote against the candidate.
John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), would curb unlimited campaign contributions to political parties and restrain spending by parties and outside groups on so-called "issue ads" that attack candidates by name, but escape legal limits by stopping just short of advocating a vote against the candidate.
The AFL-CIO, one of the Democrats' most powerful patrons, has joined business groups to fight a provision barring unions and corporations from running "issue" ads--thinly veiled plugs for candidates--just before elections.
The FEC is scheduled to figure out how best to implement a highly controversial Supreme Court ruling from earlier this year that seemingly makes it easier for businesses and organized labor to influence the public through "issue" ads--which don't focus on a specific candidate--in the days before an election.
Tracey said the ads are going to be a "bookend" issue to current ads on health care filling TVs across the country.
If ratings fall short of advertiser expectations, Fox will likely have to issue make good ads.
The parties interpret the law to mean they can spend soft money on "issue advocacy" ads, which legally aren't for the purpose of influencing the presidential race.
Another Democratic front runner, Chicago Alderman Anthony Beale, also took issue with the ads, saying people were "extremely upset" that someone from New York was trying to tell people in Illinois how to vote.
In past years, the only upside of attack ads was that they generally contained more issue content than other types of ads.
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Mobile ad growth might be an issue, since mobile ads constituted 23% of overall ad revenues, a little shy of forecasts.
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"Pull-ad" clauses are provisions in a contract between an advertiser and a publication that give the advertiser wiggle room to remove its ads from an issue at the last minute or move them elsewhere in the publication so they don't run alongside news of major catastrophes, or even against pages containing stories about itself.
The legislation that resulted from that debate is just now making its way through Congress, and drug ads remain a hot button issue.
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