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Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi has promised to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation," and has included in that program proposals for grassroots lobbying disclosure.  ...

There is instrumentalism in reform.  Who will win, and who loses, is calculated and anticipated, but ultimately unknown.

Perhaps the events of a single Tuesday ...

UPDATE:  An abbreviated version of this post by CCP Chairman Brad Smith is available in this week's Roll Call ($) --

Is the right of potential candidates to consider carefully whether to run for the most powerful political office in the world a "tired cliche?"  ...

Yesterday in the L.A. Times, columnist George Skelton post-mortemed Prop. 89, the public financing initiative that California voters overwhelmingly rejected last Tuesday.  His conclusion: ...

The Onion skewers the campaign finance "reform" movement in its inimitable style.

It is easy to pass quickly on the humor, and quickly past the ...

Today the FEC will consider an alternative draft of AO 2006-30 (ActBlue).  CCP considers this most recent draft to be a substantial improvement over the ...

CCP Chairman Brad Smith and John R. Lott, Jr. temper fears of electronic voting in National Review Online.  Say Smith ...

Would government financing of political campaigns really remove "deep-pocket special interests" from politics.  No.  Click the headline for more.

In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Robert J. Samuelson considers whether public opinion is to blame for the problems in ...