Congress: We The People - Campaign Funding
DO NOT USE WETA credit
DO NOT USE Funding credits
DO NOT USE Title sequence
A parade in Brigham, Utah, majorette, marching band. Senator Orrin Hatch (R Utah) marching with wife. Candidate Ted Wilson waves along the parade route.
Political candidates meeting voters in different settings.
Democratic Party headquarters. Republican Party headquarters
Tip O Neil
Local political campaign event with a cowboy band.
Ed Newman in offices of Federal Election Commission. Discusses the history of the Commission to monitor the money trail in elections.
January 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan inauguration. you, the citizens of this blessed land. Your dreams, your hopes, your goals are going to be the dreams, the hopes, and the goals of this administration, so help me God.
DO NOT USE 1980 Republican ad that cynically shows a blue-collar worker who's tired of the Democrats' policies, blaming the Democrats for unemployment
A media facility in a Republican campaign office.
A TV ad shoot for a Republican candidate. The candidate gives his speech for the camera.
Republican candidate entering a building, sitting across the desk from another man. Candidate is handed an envelope which may contain a donation.
Ronald Reagan addressing a luncheon of Republican officials.
DO NOT USE Clip of a 1982 Democratic ad which mimics the 1980 Republican ad, the blue-collar worker in the ad says that the Republicans promises have failed.
DO NOT USE Clip of a Democratic ad showing an Elephant loose in a china shop, predictably smashing everything.