Sentence examples for to pay for issue from inspiring English sources

In a March 14 e-mail to Mr. Bush, the vice president had proposed that both campaigns renounce the use of soft money to pay for issue advertisements.

The checks, written to the political parties by individuals, unions, corporations and others, are frequently used to pay for issue advertisements attacking candidates from the opposing party.

The 2002 McCain-Feingold law put an end to the unlimited "soft money" donations by corporations, unions and wealthy individuals to party committees, which used it to pay for "issue" ads that often attacked or supported candidates.

The National Republican Congressional Committee has agreed to pay a $280,000 fine for illegally funneling soft money to other groups to pay for issue advertisements during the 2000 elections, the Federal Election Commission said.

In a March 14 e-mail message, Mr. Gore had challenged Gov. George W. Bush to a bilateral ban on the use of soft money to pay for issue commercials.

The Court ruled that wealthy individuals could spend unlimited amounts of their own fortunes to get themselves elected to office, and that anyone could pour dollars by the hundreds of thousands into the war chests of political action committees to pay for "issue ads," clearly favoring one side in a political race, so long as a specific candidate or party was not named.

He went so far as to pull Alcoa out of the Business Roundtable, a Washington lobbying group, when the Roundtable decided in the mid-1990's to triple its dues to pay for television "issue ads" supporting pro-business candidates.

It would also contain an amendment by two Republican senators, Olympia Snowe of Maine and James Jeffords of Vermont, banning corporate and union contributions to pay for phony issue ads that mention a candidate's name 60 days before an election.

Participant, meanwhile, is eager to help pay for issues-oriented films like "The Help," which it backed in part.

In February, seven Democrats – including the chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico – voted with Republicans to oppose ending the same subsidies to pay for a separate issue.

Thaksin hasn't decided how to pay for it; the issue of zero-coupon bonds is one possibility.