{"id":307414,"date":"2010-02-11T12:51:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76415"},"modified":"2010-02-11T12:51:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:51:50","slug":"another-legislative-fix-to-citizens-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/307414","title":{"rendered":"Another Legislative Fix to Citizens United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic leaders in each chamber have teamed up today to introduce a legislative package designed to nullify the Supreme Court&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/22\/us\/politics\/22scotus.html?ref=todayspaper\" >recent decision<\/a> empowering corporations to spend uncapped sums to influence federal elections. Calling the High Court&#8217;s ruling a &#8220;radical decision&#8221; that could &#8220;drown out the voices of American citizens,&#8221; Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) called on Congress to consider the bill quickly. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is the upper-chamber sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights:<span id=\"more-76415\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ban on expenditures from foreign interests.<\/li>\n<li>Ban on expenditures from Federal contractors.<\/li>\n<li>Ban on expenditures from TARP recipients.<\/li>\n<li>Disclosure to the public through enhanced reporting through the FEC and LDA.<\/li>\n<li>Disclosure to shareholders directly and through the SEC.<\/li>\n<li>Stand By Your Ad (CEO and donor disclosure).<\/li>\n<li>Lowest Unit Rate (air time for candidates and party committees).<\/li>\n<li>Coordination Rules (tightened between outside groups and candidates).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not that this has much chance to get anywhere anytime soon &#8212; especially considering the way Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) embraced the <em>Citizens United<\/em> decision. But it&#8217;s probably also more realistic for Congress to address the issue this way, rather than going the much tougher <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75562\/a-bicameral-call-for-a-constitutional-amendment-to-nullify-citizens-united\" >Constitutional-amendment route<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic leaders in each chamber have teamed up today to introduce a legislative package designed to nullify the Supreme Court&#8217;s recent decision empowering corporations to spend uncapped sums to influence federal elections. Calling the High Court&#8217;s ruling a &#8220;radical decision&#8221; that could &#8220;drown out the voices of American citizens,&#8221; Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}