Campaign Finance Reform

Objective

• Evaluate current campaign finance reform legislation

Agenda

• News
• NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
• Campaign Finance Terms (5 points - 20 minutes)
• PAC (Political Action Committee)
• Lobbyist
• Buckley v. Valeo
• Hard Money
• Soft Money
• Citizens United vs. United States
• Super PAC
• 501c4
• Campaign Finance Reform - Colbert