Rep Ben Ray Luján Introduces the Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act

Rep Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) says he has a plan to make political advertisement buys more transparent. While certain information about political-campaign TV ads, like who's actually paying for them, is technically supposed to be part of the public record through the Federal Communications Commission, Rep Luján says that in practice the information is not truly accessible. So he's introducing The Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act to direct the FCC to make the information "available in a way that allows the public to actually use it and evaluate who is trying to influence their vote." It's a Big Data solution that would require the FCC to publish its political ad buying information in "a format that is searchable, sortable and downloadable."