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| Eliminating Taxpayer Financing Of Presidential Elections |
February 8, 2011 |
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Michael Capuano, D-MA
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"As we all know, the Presidential Election Campaign Fund was born out of the Watergate scandal as a way to provide transparency and integrity to presidential elections. The tax check off box has given millions of Americans the opportunity to support more open elections for over 30 years, and polling indicates that voters favor a transition to public financing for all federal elections, not just presidential races."
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| Eliminating Taxpayer Financing Of Presidential Elections |
January 26, 2011 |
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Eric Cantor, R-VA
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"Today, the American public, through the YouCut program, has put on the chopping block an example of unnecessary government waste. Specifically, this bill would eliminate the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, an outdated mechanism that provides Federal tax dollars to candidates in Presidential primaries in the form of matching funds and general elections and subsidies for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions."
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| Providing For Consideration Of H.R. 359, Eliminating Taxpayer Financing Of Presidential Elections |
January 26, 2011 |
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Louise Slaughter, D-NY
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"The Presidential Election Campaign Fund is the one place in our Federal electoral system where we take some of the pressure off of candidates who otherwise have to raise bushels of private money. For the life of me, I can’t see how this bill does anything other than add insult to the injury of the terrible Citizens United decision last year. This bill will also take away from American taxpayers the freedom to choose to support good government, to choose to support the public financing of campaigns."
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