Top Democrats Step Up DCCC Giving

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Top Democrats Step Up DCCC Giving
By Anna Palmer and Steven T. Dennis, CQ-Roll Call


With their majority increasingly in danger, senior Democrats are digging deeper into their wallets to help out the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The last-minute haul for the DCCC comes as party leaders try to bolster their standing heading into a potential post-election scramble for power, with lawmakers wanting to avoid charges that they didn’t do everything they could to save the majority.

DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.), who could seek an elected leadership position in the next Congress, got the ball rolling last week with a $700,000 check to the DCCC and another $100,000 in checks to individual candidates, making him the single biggest DCCC donor this cycle at $1.6 million. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) then leapfrogged Van Hollen with an expected $200,000 hike in his DCCC donations, bringing him to $1.75 million.

Hoyer’s re-election committee, Hoyer for Congress, will also be drawn down to about $500,000 or less by election night to help Democratic challengers and incumbents, according to a senior Hoyer aide. Since AMERIPAC, Hoyer’s leadership political action committee, is limited to contributing $5,000 per candidate per cycle and $15,000 to the DCCC per calendar year, he has shifted giving to his Hoyer for Congress committee, according to this aide.

At the urging of Majority Whip James Clyburn (S.C.) and others, some members of the Congressional Black Caucus have stepped up their DCCC contributions in recent weeks. Clyburn has given $1.6 million in dues to the DCCC, doubling his DCCC dues goal, and he is going to dole out another $100,000 this week, according to his spokeswoman, Kristie Greco.

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1. Buying chairmanships?

I don't like it anymore than I do when (R)s do it.

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2. I don't care about that...

we need campaign cash from wherever we can get it. I tapped out with 2K in donations spread out over 5 places, and that hurt, but I had to do it.

[babylonsister]

3. No. Supporting Dems; nothing will happen if this isn't done.

Ads cost money.