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Fellow Ruy Teixeira

Ruy Teixeira is a fellow at both The Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress, as well as a fellow of the New Politics Institute.

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• Event: Money, Politics and the Constitution: A Public Conversation
  All of the presenters are contributors to the recently published book, Money, Politics and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United, sponsored by The Century Foundation and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law
  Jun 20, 2011
• Book: Money, Politics, and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United
  Top Constitutional scholars launch a new jurisprudence to curb the rise of unfettered money in politics post-Citizens United. What is next for the First Amendment? And how can we advance a vision of the Constitution as a charter for a vibrant, participatory democracy?
  Apr 28, 2011
• Commentary: Is Max Baucus Ready to Cave On a Public-Sector Insurance Option? Tauzin Defends Baucus on Campaign Contributions Part 2
  This week, Ted Kennedy is back on Capitol Hill, and health care reformers are moved and relieved to see him, stalwartly carrying on, despite his illness. Ever since he collapsed at President Obama's inaugural luncheon, Kennedy has not been able to spearhead the fight on healthcare reform in Congress as he might have wished, buttonholing colleagues in the halls of Congress on a daily basis. Instead Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus has become the Democrat's point-man on reform. And some liberal reformers fear that Baucus may be too quick to compromise with Republicans.
  Apr 1, 2009
• Commentary: Is Max Baucus Ready to Cave On a Public-Sector Insurance Option? Tauzin Defends Baucus on Campaign Contributions Part I
  In Senator Edward Kennedy's absence, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has emerged as the Senate's point man on healthcare reform - "prompting concern among some liberal senators," according to The Hill. Why are they concerned? Because they "remember Baucus's history of cutting deals with Republicans."
  Mar 31, 2009
• Commentary: We Get What They Pay For
  People are taking potshots at the fair elections experiment in New Jersey—an attempt to reduce the enormous power of campaign contributors by offering public subsidies to participants. Oddly, many of the same people who worry about corruption in politics are hostile to the idea of reducing the need for campaign money in the first place.
  Oct 22, 2007
• Event: Politics Moves Online: The Effect of the Internet on Political Campaigns
  Josh Marshall, Zack Exley and Michael Cornfield, participate in a briefing on the new TCF report "Politics Moves Online."
  Feb 25, 2004
• Event: Summer Policy Forum for New York City Interns on Campaign Finance Reform - A Foundation for Democracy
  Jul 24, 2002
• Publication: Beyond the Basics: Campaign Finance Reform
  Anthony Corrado addresses some of the difficult questions being asked in the campaign finance debate about the role of money in elections and politics and possibilities for reforming the current system, with the goal that citizens may gain a better understanding of the current controversies.
  Sep 14, 2000
• Book: Public Financing of Congressional Campaigns
  To reduce the corrosive effect of private money on the political process, the federal government should subsidize campaigns for the United States House of Representatives and Senate. A Century Foundation Idea Brief.
  Apr 25, 2000
• Publication: If Buckley Fell
  Recently, the Supreme Court’s 1976 decision in Buckley v. Valeo has come under fire for allowing money and its owners too free a hand in American elections and politics. This volume of essays sketches a vision of how campaign finance could be more closely regulated under the First Amendment, were the Buckley decision undone.
  Feb 14, 2000