Scott Howell on Government Reform 2000 Democratic Challenger for Senate (UT)

Taxpayer funding for Congressional candidates

Howell indicated support of the following principles on campaign finance:
• Support public taxpayer funding for Congressional candidates who comply with campaign spending limits.
• Provide free or low-cost television advertising to candidates who agree to voluntary campaign spending limits.
• Ban unregulated soft money campaign contributions to political parties or committees.
• Prohibit non-U.S. citizens from making soft money contributions to national parties or party committees.
• Require full disclosure of funding sources of issue advocacy commercials which appear within 60 days of an election. Source: 2000 Congressional National Political Awareness Test , Nov 1, 2000

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