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Campaign Finance Refrorm


            
             Campaign finance reform has been a hot topic for the past couple of years. Many large corporations, unions and individuals contribute enormous sums of money to political parties and election campaigns. These donations are referred to as soft money. Last year the Senate, and just recently the House of Representatives passed a bill that would put an end to soft money contributions to national parties. .
             Supporters of the bill claim that banning large unlimited political donations would restore a somewhat level playing field to elections. Today it seems the candidate with the most money gets the most votes. Many politicians pay for their campaigns with money they receive from either corporations or someone with a vested interest in that particular candidate getting into office. Once elected one would assume that candidate would owe some favors to the contributors who helped get him in office. This bill would eliminate those huge contributions.
             Many Republicans, however, oppose the bill. Their opposition comes from the fact that many of their campaigns are financed at least in part with soft money contributions. In hopes of killing it, the Republicans added a bunch of fraudulent amendments to the bill. It still passed in the House so I guess you can say their attempts were futile.
             I think most people agree that there is a great need for campaign finance reform in this country. I feel the bill proposed, if passed would be a giant step in the right direction. It would take special interest groups" money out of the election process. Politicians would owe less favors one elected.
            


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