Dingell does Democracy
Michigan Congressman John Dingell, D-12th District, announced the introduction of the Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act earlier this week.
If passed, the act would set contribution limits on donations to super PACs, political action committees that are not restricted by the size of donations they can legally receive or the amount of money they can spend on political advertising, as long as they make no contributions to a political party or a specific candidate’s campaign.
“Flawed campaign finance laws have allowed for the corrupt purchasing of our elections by corporate special interests and millionaires that want to put a price on our representation,” Dingell said in a press release. “The Supreme Court’s allowance of quid pro quo and pay-to-play politics is unhealthy for the future of our nation and flies in the face of the very freedoms secured by our Founding Fathers in establishing this great experiment in representational democracy. This legislation is simple and will begin to reign in the out of control super PAC presence we now see in elections up and down the ticket.”
The legislation was cosponsored by 10 other Democratic members of Congress, and has received support from Bob Edgar, the president and CEO of Common Cause, a nonprofit citizen’s lobbying organization.
