Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Rules and AdministrationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 |
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amendments areas ballot believe bill Board of Election candidates CHAIRMAN challengers Chicago Chicago Urban League citizens Congress congressional contributions cost County D.C. DEAR SENATOR DEAR SENATOR STONE Democratic elec election administration Election Campaign Act election day registration election officials electoral process eligible expenditures Federal Election Campaign Federal Election Commission filed Firehouse FLAHERTY going Hanly identification implementation increase incumbents interest groups League legislation million Minnesota organizations outreach PAC's percent person political action committees polling place precinct Presidential election primary primary elections problem procedures proposed public financing question record register on election registered voters registrars registration sites Rhode Island RICHARD STONE Secretary Section Senator ALLEN Senator BAKER Senator CLARK Senator GRIFFIN Senator HATFIELD Senator PACKWOOD spending limits statement suggest testimony Thank tion U.S. Senate Universal Voter Registration voter fraud voter participation voter turnout voting age Washington
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Seite 218 - handout. Not the voters, who would lose their voice in campaigns. As Robert Frost, the poet, wrote: Only the narrow interest of a special few. "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense." It seems to me very likely we are walling the voters and
Seite 656 - Do you swear that you are a citizen of the United States; that you are 18 years of age; that you are an actual resident of this precinct and that you have not voted in this election?" If the challenged person in answering the
Seite 335 - may make contributions to a candidate and his authorized political committees with respect to any election for Federal office which, in the aggregate, do not exceed $10,000. (B) to the political committees established and maintained by a national political party, which are not the authorized political committees of any candidates, in any calendar year, which, in the aggregate, exceed $15,000; or
Seite 325 - of the act allows corporations, trade associations and labor organizations to spend treasury money for the "establishment, administration and solicitation of contributions to a separate, segregated fund to be used for political purposes by a corporate, labor organization,
Seite 770 - Curiae in the pending Supreme Court case of Richardson v. Ramirez, urging that state laws be struck down which prohibit ex-offenders from exercising their right to vote. In that brief the Association began its argument by citing the 1964 decision in Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 US 1, 17; "Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.
Seite 335 - (D) to any other political committee in any calendar year which, in the aggregate, exceed $5,000. (2) No multicandidate political committee shall make contributions— (A) to any candidate and his authorized political committees with respect to any election for Federal office, or to any
Seite 462 - Senator Griffin? Senator GRIFFIN. I join with the Chairman in thanking you and welcoming you to our committee. I am sorry I did not get here in time to hear the whole statement. Did you comment on the fact that election day registration is not covered as far as primary elections are concerned? Mr. KILLEEN.
Seite 219 - the constitutionality of Section 608(e) (1) turns on whether the governmental interests advanced in its support satisfy the exacting scrutiny applicable to limitations on core First Amendment rights of political expression. "We find that the governmental interest in preventing corruption and the appearance of corruption Is inadequate to justify Section
Seite 795 - The Congress finds that voting discrimination against citizens of language minorities is pervasive and national in scope. Such minority citizens are from environments in which the dominant language is other than English. In addition they have been denied
Seite 779 - the right to vote freely, for the candidate of one's choice, is of the essence of a democratic society and any restriction on that right strikes at the heart of representative government.