About Campaign Spending Limits
Editorials and Op-Eds | NVRI Press Releases and Events | Coalition Efforts
One of the most popular solutions for out-of-control campaign spending remains the idea of campaign spending limits. In public opinion polls, a majority of Americans jump to spending limits as one of the best ways to make politics available to all Americans. NVRI is in the forefront of the movement to make them possible. Since the Supreme Court struck federal campaign spending limits in 1976, many have argued that the ruling makes spending limits forever unconstitutional. NVRI - and our many allies - disagree.
Editorials and Op-Eds
- June 28, 2006 — TomPaine.com: "Blow To Fair Elections," NVRI Executive Director Stuart Comstock-Gay on the Supreme Court's decision in Randall v. Sorell
- June 12, 2006 — Roll Call: "Cap Campaign Contributions and Boost Competition," by Deborah Goldberg of the Brennan Center (pdf)
- March 10, 2006 — Boston Globe: "Limit campaign fundraising," by Alan Simpson (pdf)
- February 28, 2006 — Roll Call: "Two Cases, Two Approaches, One Principle," by Adam Lioz of U.S.PIRG (pdf)
- November 8, 2005 — Roll Call: "Vermont Case Offers Chance to Embrace Spending Limits," by Donna Brazile (pdf)
- June 27, 2005 — National Law Journal: "Why Spending Limits Are Necessary," by NVRI Managing Attorney Brenda Wright (pdf)
- April 27, 2005 — United Press International: "The NFL's Salary Cap, Baseball and Politics," by Stuart Comstock-Gay, NVRI Executive Director
- September 25, 2004 — The Boston Globe: "The Money Question," an editorial in favor of a review of Buckley v. Valeo (pdf)
- September 22, 2004 — TomPaine.com: "Democracy for Millionaires," NVRI Executive Director Stuart Comstock-Gay on money in politics and campaign spending limits
- August 17, 2004 — Albuquerque Tribune: "A Voice at the Polls," by Derek Cressman, Director of TheRestofUs.org, talks about Albuquerque's campaign spending limits law
NVRI Press Releases and Events
- June 26, 2006 — Splintered Supreme Court Overturns Vermont's Campaign Spending, Contribution Limits
- June 1, 2006 — Study Shows Campaign Contribution Limits Do Not Harm Challengers
- February 28, 2006 — U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Watershed Campaign Spending Limits Case (pdf)
- February 22, 2006 — Spending Cap Case Coming Before U.S. Supreme Court (pdf)
- February 9, 2006 — Briefs Filed in Watershed Campaign Spending Limits Case (pdf)
- January 5, 2006 — Vast Majority of Americans Want Spending Limits
- October 25, 2005 — Panel Discussion to Discuss Spending Limits, at American University in Washington, DC
- September 27, 2005 — U. S. Supreme Court to Review Campaign Spending Limits
- August 2, 2005 — Video of a Debate on the Constitutionality and Policy Implications of Campaign Spending Limits, at Georgetown University in Washington, DC
- June 15, 2005 — Broad Coalition Urges Supreme Court to Review Campaign Spending Limits
- May 12, 2005 — Campaign Spending Limits Moving to the Supreme Court (pdf)
- February 14, 2005 — Federal Appeals Court Lets Stand a Landmark Ruling that Campaign Spending Limits May be Constitutional
- November 29, 2004 — Advocates Vow Continued Defense of Campaign Spending Limits Following Supreme Court's Denial of Review in Albuquerque Spending Limits Case (pdf)
- August 18, 2004 — Second Circuit Court of Appeals Finds Campaign Spending Limits Constitutional Under Right Conditions (pdf)