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  Election Financing
Read how election financing has evolved from the first federal attempt to regulate campaign finance in 1867 with the Naval Appropriations Bill to the last major Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) amendment in 1979.
 
  Reform Attempts
The impetus for changing the system of campaign financing has usually come as a result of scandal, but in almost every instance politicians have succeeded in blunting any serious reform attempts.

 


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