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Submitted: March 21, 2012 - 9:09pm
Originally published: March 21, 2012
Last updated: April 4, 2012 - 9:23pm
Originally published: March 21, 2012
Last updated: April 4, 2012 - 9:23pm
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Hill, The
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Kevin Bogardus Rachel Leven
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Capitol Building, East Capitol Street, NE and 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC, 20002, United States
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said legislation is needed to reverse the “spectacle” of campaign spending by super-PACs.
Senate Democrats revived the Disclose Act in an election-year push against the “spectacle” of campaign spending by super-PACs. The legislation was crafted by a taskforce of Democratic senators who were asked to craft a response to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, a ruling in 2010 that allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited funds on election activities. Since that ruling, political spending by super-PACs and nonprofit groups outside of campaigns has been on the rise.
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