Sens. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Joseph Liberman (D-CT) have put together a charitable giving package identical to the the CARE Act . The two Senators filed the amendment to the Foreign Sales Corporation Tax Bill (S. 1637), a bill to repeal the U.S. export tax regime.

In response to the FEC rulemaking on political committees, the Alliance for Justice, Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest, the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, and OMB Watch have developed four principles that we believe must be incorporated into any new rule the FEC adopts. The statement is below. We have also created a website with more background information for nonprofits at www.nonprofitadvocacy.org. Read the full statement below. An Open Letter on Principles That Should Apply in the Upcoming FEC Rulemaking March 3, 2004

A FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force subpoena was issued early this month to Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The subpoena asked the university to produce all records relating to its November antiwar conference.

On Feb. 11, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) introduced HR 3801, a bill to repeal “electioneering communications” restrictions in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) that ban broadcasts that refer to federal candidates 60 days before a general election or 30 days before a primary election or nominating convention.