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• Title: Show US Your Money: Halting the Use of Trade Organizations As Covert Conduits for Corporate Campaign Contributions.
• Author : The Journal of Corporation Law
• Release Date : January 22, 2007
• Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 360 KB

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I. INTRODUCTION The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (the Chamber) is the "world's largest business federation," (1) and the most financially influential trade organization, (2) representing three million large and small businesses and thousands of smaller trade associations. (3) The Chamber is not only the nation's strongest business advocate and the top spender on lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C., but also is one of the top independent organizational contributors to state and federal political campaigns. (4) The national Chamber alone spent $30 million in both the 2004 and 2006 elections. (5) However, the public will never know who is funding the Chamber's attack ads and get-out-the-vote efforts because the Chamber is a registered 501(c)(6) trade organization, and therefore is not required to itemize its political activities or comply with federal election donor limits. (6)

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