The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (McCain-Feingold)

question 50

Multiple Choice

The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (McCain-Feingold)

• A) eliminated the provision in the Federal Election Campaign Act that provided public financing for presidential primaries and general elections.
• B) set the amount that an individual could contribute to a federal candidate at $8,000 (indexed for inflation).
• C) prohibited individual contributions to political campaigns.
• D) banned soft money at the national level.
• E) limited the total amount of PAC contributions during an election cycle to $40,000.

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