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many many candidates. toyota is another one. we could spend your whole program, stephanie, but i m trying to give people a flavor of what s going on. 9 billion dollars. that s how much money has been spent in these midterm elections. that is more than the annual chicago school budget for the year. given how much lawmakers on both sides of the aisle need to raise in order to win these elections, is there any reason we should believe there is going to be any kind man campaign finance regulations? election funding? they want these big dollars. you are right and it s on both sides of the aisle. it s very unlikely in the next congress, as we get into this next congress, there were going to see any changes on campaign finance reform. there have been attempts at this over the years, and there has not been any big movement there. i want to take one step back to something we ve been talking about. here you look at what happened after the election. one major example of a billionaire donor, s
At present, political parties are not required to reveal the sources giving less than Rs 20,000 nor those who donate via electoral bonds. As a result, more than 36% of the funds cannot be traced.
funding for election officials. i allocated $8 million from my office that we had received from previous federal funding to local clerks to increase the security of their offices. and we have asked the state do the same. i was in d.c. asking the federal government to fill in the fwap. t gap. the appropriations committee has recommended a $400 million allocation to the states for election funding. that is the type of thing that if passed could be used to help increase our security at the state and local level. which is something that we ll need to do if democracy is going to hold. what i said to the committee is really protecting our security is protecting election security. are you confident that that will pass? we receive lots of promises of increased funding in elections over the years and oftentimes it does not come to fruition. i m hopeful this time is different. the $400 million that is in the proposed budget would help us significantly in the states. and so we re trying to ma