Campaign Finance

Search, view, and download campaign finance reports and data available from the Federal Election Commission on the campaign finance activities of Federal election candidates, political parties, and PACs.

Campaign finance refers to all funds raised in order to promote candidates, political parties, or policies in elections, referendums, initiatives, party activities, and party organizations.

Overview of the different types of state laws that regulate campaign finance.

Attempts to limit the influence of money on American political campaigns date back to the 1860s. Since the Supreme Court overturned much of the legislation regulating campaign contributions, Super PACS have proliferated, and concern over the influence corporations have on elections is growing. Brookings experts examine campaign finance legislation and the impact it can have on political outcomes.

Founded in 1999, CFI has successfully established its reputation as the nation's pre-eminent think tank for campaign finance policy. Written to meet peer-reviewed standards, CFI's original work is published in academic journals as well as in forms regularly used by the media and policy makers.

This site contains images of hard copies of campaign finance reports by candidates, parties and PACs and other information from the U.S. agency that oversees campaign finance laws.

Americans of both parties reject the regime of untrammeled money in elections, but more than half are pessimistic that improvements will be made.

The Watergate campaign finance scandals led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Forty years later, some say the scandal isn't what is illegal, it's what is legal.

Evan Osnos on Lawrence Lessig's plan to reform campaign finance by using super PAC's against themselves.

The Center focuses its investigations on the following areas: money and politics, government waste/fraud/abuse, the environment, healthcare reform, national security and state government transparency.

For critics of the final version of SB 69, one package of the election-law changes passed in the 2015 legislative session, the baby went with the bath water.