Principles Before Political Advantage
18 December 2015
Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission and Chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics, discusses the continued fights over campaign-finance laws and why it's disheartening that the House Freedom Caucus objected to a proposal by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to lift the limit on how much political parties can spend in coordination with their candidates.
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