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Tell me more about the limits on contributions?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-strike...

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=...

Neither of your links counter what rayiner said. The first specifically says the per-candidate, per-election limits were left in place. The second is just a sum total of all the contributions to Paul Ryan over his federal political career (which has nothing to do with the limits on individual contributors). Neither says that lobbyists have any different limits than I do.

The WaPo article addresses a ban on aggregate contributions to multiple candidates, not a single candidate.

OpenSecrets very misleadingly attributes all contributions from a company’s employees to the company itself. It’s propaganda.

It would be misleading if there weren't so many cases of corporate officers acting as bagmen for their political causes.

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