Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) may have inadvertently violated federal campaign finance laws by appearing with Newt Gingrich in a television commercial that ran in her district less than a month before a contested primary, according to campaign finance experts. (Snip) The ad was paid for by former Vice President Al Gore's non-profit group, the Alliance for Climate Protection. Under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 - popularly known as ''McCain-Feingold'' and which passed with Pelosi's support...

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