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Shea also last month signed a pledge never knowingly to accept political action committee money in any campaign ever, and said he would resign any seat if he found out PAC money leaked into his campaign fund. He is trying to make political capital out of Atkins's refusal to sign a similar pledge...
Congressman Green is correct; TIME's chart was wrong. Top recipients of PAC contributions for January-June...
...stunned to find myself listed as having received $300,000 this year from political action committees (PACs) [NATION, Aug. 20]. When listing the names and campaign receipts of certain candidates for Congress, you mistakenly identified total campaign contributions as PAC money. In fact, PAC contributions in my case have been less than 15% of the total contributions this year, and past campaign experience has placed me among the "little guys" when judging PAC recipients...
...lobbying to include the offices of Congressman and Senator in the legislation that this year will provide $130 million in tax revenue for presidential candidates. Several bills now before Congress provide for public financing. But there is a practical roadblock on Capitol Hill: incumbents, who receive 77% more in PAC donations than challengers, have no desire to vote away their built-in advantage...
...PAC opponents are confident that they will succeed eventually. "The confrontations over the PAC issue are going to get worse, not better," predicts Fred Wertheimer, president of Common Cause. "We all have the same goal: to get rid of a rotten system that simply has to be changed...