From NEWSMAX:
President Obama and leading Democrats are pushing the House to vote on a controversial campaign-finance bill that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is blasting as “unconstitutional” and a “desperate attempt” by Democrats to grab a political advantage in the upcoming midterm elections.
The bill, called the Disclose Act, appears to be a blatant effort by Democrats in Congress to find a way around the Supreme Court’s recent Citizens United v. FEC ruling, which struck down provisions of McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reforms that severely restricted the rights of corporations and nonprofit groups to run political advertising. …
The Supreme Court ruled such restrictions violate the First Amendment right to free speech. But this new effort includes a series of provisions seeking to disclose donors involved in political advertising as well as saddling private business with boatloads of paperwork to discourage their involvement in the political process…
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