NOUN
- political contributions made in such a way as to avoid the United States regulations for federal election campaigns (as by contributions to a political action committee)
How To Use soft money In A Sentence
- Some of the monies, so-called nonfederal or soft money that is contributed, that would not be accepted because that would be restricted. Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
- the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money
- Both sides of the aisle are corrupted by the soft money that gets them elected.
- We didn't have soft money, but we had ideas and we had vision and we had principles and we had things that attracted Americans to our banner.
- So yes, if you're worried about hurting the party as a conduit for soft money, maybe you need to worry about this, but not as an old - fashioned political party.
- Both major parties raised large amounts of soft money for use during the presidential campaign.
- The law eliminated "loopholes" (or legislative oversights ) that in the past allowed the use of soft money to aid candidates running for federal office.
- The U. S. Supreme Court in 2003 upheld congressional restrictions passed in 2002 on soft money contributions.
- Soft money is different from contributions made directly to presidential and congressional candidates.
- Do you think that they -- they're arguing that, as far as the black community is concerned, their interests are best served by not eliminating all so-called unrestrictive soft money? CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2002
