In General

Powerful lawmakers from both parties expressed a desire Friday to pass a campaign finance bill.

Critics said a bill would allow unions and small donor committees to give hundreds of thousands of dollars to candidates.

The House Rules Committee will hold a public hearing on the bill on Friday.

Business and labor groups have negotiated a system of contribution limits they hope to push through before lawmakers adjourn March 10. Critics say the proposal is weak.

A dark money group founded by a national Republican political operative and oil industry lobbyists stepped up its efforts to influence Oregon voters this week, sending mailers and buying ad

The majority of Oregonians want campaign finance reform but apparently cannot agree on how to reform elections beyond campaign finance, according to new survey results from the Oregon Values and

Oregon lawmakers already had a big agenda to tackle in the short legislative session, but a surprise wrinkle entered the fray.

The Coalition for Safe, Healthy and Prosperous Communities doesn’t disclose donors but has spent big to help Republicans.

Democrats and Republicans often clash on the subject of caps on political giving, but are hoping to avoid a messy ballot fight.

With an expensive ballot fight looming, two sides often opposed to one another are attempting to find a path forward in this year's legislative session.

As the cost of fighting wildfires increases, state Sen. Elizabeth Steiner has proposed a bill — developed in consultation with the logging industry — that would shift millions in expenses away from the biggest landowners and onto taxpayers.

Gov. Tina Kotek says campaign finance limits will not come up this legislative session.

Oregon teachers unions play a powerful role in state politics and shape public education policy.

A political nonprofit long led by Oregon's powerful public employee unions wants to set campaign contribution limits in the state — and kill a competing 2024 ballot proposal by campaign finance reformers that would enact tighter limits and stricter ad disclosures.

PCUN joins a handful of other groups petitioning to clarify and limit campaign contributions.

Professor Renée Irvin has developed a new method for evaluating fundraising groups

Anheuser-Busch gave $49,250 to the Jobs Political Action Committee in Oregon on Tuesday.

Longtime political and education editor Betsy Hammond joins Therese Bottomly to talk about the recently completed legislative session.

Oregon's lack of campaign finance restrictions means legislators can give as much money to each other's campaigns as they like. And they have.

The Oregon law dealing with ethics itself raises ethical questions.

The limits would give Oregon its first controls on campaign money in more than two decades.

The Oregon House passed a trio of campaign finance reform bills Thursday, including one bringing the state a step closer to limiting contributions.

Oregon is one of only five states to have absolutely no limits on how much money can be donated to political campaigns. But lawmakers took a step to change that Thursday, when the House passed a measure approving the state's first campaign contribution limits in decades. The proposal caps contributions to House and Senate candidates at $1,000 and $1,500, respectively. Contributions to all other statewide candidates would be capped at $2,800.

Former Independent Party gubernatorial nominee Patrick Starnes writes that the word "unlimited" does not belong in any bill about campaign finance reform. He urges Oregonians to contact state senators to add caps to HB 2714.

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon is one of only five states to have absolutely no limits on how much money can be donated to political campaigns.