How did the bipartisan campaign reform act affect campaign funding and
spending?
a. it restricted spending by banning parties, candidates, and elected
officials from receiving or spending soft money on election
campaigns.
b. it expanded campaign spending by allowing corporations to
contribute unlimited soft money to federal races.
c. it made campaign spending more equal by establishing a reserve
of public money that major parties in presidential elections could
use.
d. it weakened campaign finance laws by ruling that corporations
and unions could fund election ads and other campaign media.

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act affect campaign funding and  spending by restricting the spending by banning parties, candidates, and elected officials from receiving or spending soft money on election campaigns.

Option A

Explanation:

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act proposed on 27th March 2002 which is a US Federal law that used to control the Political campaign's financing. This act otherwise called BCRA or McCain–Feingold Act that came to effect from 1st January 2003. This act was created to end the two big political issues during the election time.

One of those two is the increased soft money's( public financing) role in the campaign. By restricting the political party from offering or receiving funds the scandals during the campaign finance can be avoided. This act was proposed by John McCain and Russ Feingold who were the Senators.

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