“In a perfect world, members of Congress who serve on committees that oversee or regulate specific industries wouldn’t be able to fundraise or accept campaign contributions from those industries,” said Aaron Scherb, the director of legislative affairs at Common Cause.Scherb added that participating in the imperfect system doesn’t mean that Nadler or other lawmakers are being bought off, but there’s a “perceived conflict of interest that’s created.”“For many Americans, our corrosive fund-raising system calls into question...

“The Special Counsel concluded that the promised ‘documents and information that would incriminate Hillary’ constituted a ‘thing of value,’” the complaint supplement from Common Cause, Campaign Legal Center, and Democracy 21 states. “And that Trump Jr.—and potentially Manafort and Kushner—solicited such a contribution from a person known to be a foreign national.”The supplement concludes: “In other words, the Special Counsel concluded that, at a minimum, Trump Jr. violated the ban on soliciting contributions from foreign...

"The citizenship question is a bald-faced attempt to racially rig the census, undercount communities of color and undermine fair representation which our democracy relies upon," said Karen Hobert Flynn, president of Common Cause, a nonpartisan public interest group.

Sinabi ni David Vance, ang National Media Strategist sa organisasyong tagapagbantay ng gobyerno na Common Cause, sa Newsweek na ang desisyon ng Husted ay nagbigay-daan sa mga lehislatura ng estado na gumamit ng mga purges of roll para sugpuin ang mga botante.

"Sa greenlighting ng Ohio's voter roll purges, ang Husted ruling ay nagbigay inspirasyon sa iba't ibang paraan upang alisin ang mga botante mula sa mga botohan para sa partisan na pakinabang," sabi niya. "Ang Arizona bill ay ang pinakabagong halimbawa lamang ng mga taktika sa pagsugpo sa botante na nagmumula sa desisyon ni Husted. Ito ay tila isa pang pagtatangka ng...

Aaron Scherb, the legislative director of watchdog organization Common Cause, noted that conservative religious organizations have previously donated large amounts to groups that further their political interests.

"The Religious Right and certain conservative religious groups have significant resources at their disposable. As we detailed in a 2015 report, they often flex their political muscle to further enhance their ability to spend big money in politics to drown out the voices of dissenting views," he told Newsweek.

“Now I’m elected, now I’m in, I got the power to draft, lobby and shape the laws that govern the United States of America. Fabulous,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Now, is there any hard limit that I have in terms of what legislation I’m allowed to touch…based on the special interests funds that I accepted?”

“There’s no limit,” said Karen Hobert Flynn, president of the nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause.

Ocasio-Cortzed continued, “I can be totally funded by oil and gas, totally funded by big...

"Mr. Whitley has no business being involved with elections, much less serving as Texas' chief election officer," Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas, said in a written statement. Common Cause is among the groups that have asked Whitley to withdraw his office's Jan. 25 advisory. "This 'voter purge' was poorly thought out, incompetently implemented and definitely seems to have been more about politics than anything else," he said. "At this point, I think purging Mr. Whitley from the secretary of state's office would be...

"Nagbibigay ito ng pagkakataon para sa mga taong hindi mayaman sa kanilang sarili," sabi ni Cheri Quickmire, executive director ng Common Cause sa Connecticut, na nagtataguyod para sa pampublikong financing. Ang mga pondo ay nagpapalaya din sa mga gumagawa ng patakaran mula sa ilan sa patuloy na pangangalap ng pondo na kadalasang sumasabay sa paghawak ng opisina, idinagdag niya. "Hindi na nila kailangang maglibot habang sinasabi ang kanilang mga kamay, 'Pakiusap bigyan mo ako ng pera.'"

Aaron Scherb, the legislative affairs director at the nonprofit government watchdog Common Cause, said a comprehensive review of the program is long overdue especially in light of the Trump administration's decision to pull American troops out of countries like Afghanistan and Syria. "I think a GAO audit on the effectiveness of the program as well as a potential Department of Defense inspector general report would go a long way to determine how necessary and useful this program is, as the U.S. military continues to draw down in certain...

However, building a case against Cohen for these potential campaign finance violations would have been much more difficult than the case made over hush payments Cohen facilitated to women who alleged affairs with Trump, Paul S. Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at the watchdog group Common Cause, tweeted.