Back to the Congress: Campaign Finance Reform

Publication Date: February 1992

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Steven A. Schwalm

Research Area: Politics

Keywords: Government reform

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The real aim of campaign finance reform should be to make elections competitive so that voters have real alternatives at the voting booth. The spending limits, public financing, and bureaucratic complexity of H.R. 3750 and S. 3 fail to do so. The bills passed in both houses only help Congressmen keep their jobs with less effort in fund-raising.