Reform Group Pushes Campaign Ad Vouchers

The Campaign Legal Center is urging Congress to pass a bill that would levy a fee on broadcasters to help subsidize campaign ads via a voucher system. The center was looking to capitalize on the recommendations of the Carter/Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, which came out with its report two weeks ago. That commission recommended the bill, and additionally suggested broadcasters carry five minutes a night of candidate discourse in the month preceding the elections, the so-called 5/30 standard. The voucher program was proposed in the Our Democracy, Our Airwaves Act introduced in the last Congress by veteran campaign reformers John McCain (R-AZ) and Russell Feingold (D-WI).
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
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