By way of comparison, in 2009 Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase, two institutions the S.E.C. regulates, spent $4.6 billion each — four times the S.E.C.'s entire annual budget — on information technology alone.
Look for Daschle to push for a Fed-like health board that will regulate HMOs, spending bills to increase coverage for kids, and other legislation to enable Medicare drug plans to negotiate with Big Pharma.
The Eagles' and the Saints PACC's have registered with the Federal Election Commission, the agency that regulates campaign spending.
Economists more or less agree on what a country has to do to be efficient -- open the economy, keep inflation low, treat investors fairly, regulate smartly, spend on education, build good infrastructure, and so on.
The oversight body, which also regulates campaign spending, has spent the past year examining how digital campaigning was used in the UK's 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election — as well as researching public opinion to get voters' views on digital campaigning issues.
We could better regulate campaign spending and force greater transparency.
Consumers waste power not just because they cannot regulate their spending very precisely, but also because it often does not cost very much.
The Citizens Equality Act, which would make it easier to vote, end gerrymandering – voting district manipulation – and authorize Congress to regulate campaign spending and donations more aggressively than the Supreme Court currently permits, would be a net benefit for American politics.
The proposal on the November ballot provides the Campaign Finance Board with explicit authority to regulate party spending in a manner consistent with current practice and that specifically embraces the design of the new system.
Edwards has introduced an amendment to the Constitution that would allow Congress to regulate campaign spending.
