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"The coordination rules apply to coordinated spending, not coordination between strategies or traveling," explained Paul S. Ryan, FEC director of the Campaign Legal Center.
Such coordinated spending could be used to circumvent the limits on contributions to individuals.
And he suggested that Clinton aides were not telling the truth when they said they never agreed to allow coordinated spending.
The 5-to-4 decision found that the limits on coordinated spending were justified because without them rich donors could circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates.
Coordinated spending by candidates and anyone else was forbidden and remains so; any such spending is charged against the candidate's limit.
The IMF echoed the OECD's call for a coordinated spending plan by rich nations to reverse a downturn in growth since last summer.
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Launched in 2015, the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank is the largest coordinated infrastructure spending program in human history.
Politics aside, the real question here is whether coordinated political spending between campaigns and outside groups is actually illegal, or whether federal judges will rule that, like independent expenditures, it is protected by the First Amendment.
It's no secret that an unwillingness to cooperate on coordinated government spending and an obsession with austerity and structural reforms have kept fiscal policy off the table and delayed recovery in the eurozone and the EU.
The coordinated-spending restrictions were established under a 1974 law, enacted in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, that also capped contributions to individual campaigns at $1,000 an election ($5,000 if made by political action committees).
Advocates of a soft-money ban had feared that a decision overturning the coordinated-spending limits would make some members of the House, which is to take up legislation similar to McCain-Feingold in about two weeks, think that enactment of such a ban was futile.
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