Sentence examples for provision of campaign from inspiring English sources

A provision of campaign finance law defines a contribution as a gift or loan made in connection with an election, Mr. Mandelker said.

Correction: March 7, 2000, Tuesday A front-page article on Saturday about Sam Wyly, the Texas businessman who paid for advertising critical of Senator John McCain, referred imprecisely to a provision of campaign finance law dealing with independent ads that appeal directly for or against a candidate.

Inexplicably, Senate Democrats allowed Senator McConnell to repeal a provision of the campaign finance laws while Senator McConnell continues his stonewalling tactics to successfully block all campaign finance reform measures sought by Senate Democrats.

For now, at least, the campaigns are stuck with the rule, a provision of the campaign-finance bill passed into law last year.

"We have a very substantial agenda we'd like to act on, starting right away," Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, said after the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the major provisions of the campaign finance law that he championed with Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona.

A20 F.E.C. Delays Soft-Money Ruling Federal election regulators postponed a decision about how to interpret a crucial provision of the new campaign finance law that is intended to eliminate the use of soft money in national elections.

They were part of a provision of the new campaign finance law that requires candidates to appear in their own commercials to endorse them, in part to discourage outrageous attack advertisements.

"We regret the Supreme Court's decision today to strike down a provision of the Arizona campaign law," wrote Executive Director Michael Waldman in a statement.

Federal election regulators rejected an effort today that critics said would have watered down a provision of the new campaign-finance legislation aimed at eliminating those "issue ads" that are often thinly veiled attacks on federal candidates paid for by unrestricted donations from corporations, unions and other advocacy groups.

But the most far-reaching element of the bill — and the one that caused the most contentious behind-the-scenes negotiations — was the provisions requiring the disclosure of campaign contributions that lobbyists gather up from clients and associates to give to political candidates and the parties' Congressional campaign committees.

There were real problems of overbreadth with that provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, which presumed that any broadcast mentioning a candidate was a campaign ad.