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Republicans plan to "drain the swamp" by gutting campaign finance laws
Seeing the federal government slip into Republican hands is terrifying campaign finance experts, who are bracing for a wave of deregulation that could give millionaires and billionaires powerful new ways to influence American politics.
Top Republican leaders — most vocally, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — have spent years advocating specific changes that would gut what’s left of an American campaign finance regime that’s already been crippled.
"We’re getting ready for a fight. We know that Republicans aren’t going to do anything about Citizens United and that they’re probably going to want to throw out what little is left of McCain-Feingold," says Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist at the transparency nonprofit Public Citizen, referencing the bipartisan bill from 2002 that put some restrictions on campaign spending. (Many of the restrictions put in place by that bill were thrown out by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010.) "It's going to be a tough battle.”
With control of the House and Senate, congressional Republicans have the power to ram through a series of measures — including repealing limits on what political parties can get from individual donors — that are inscribed in the GOP’s official party platform.
Top Republican leaders — most vocally, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — have spent years advocating specific changes that would gut what’s left of an American campaign finance regime that’s already been crippled.
"We’re getting ready for a fight. We know that Republicans aren’t going to do anything about Citizens United and that they’re probably going to want to throw out what little is left of McCain-Feingold," says Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist at the transparency nonprofit Public Citizen, referencing the bipartisan bill from 2002 that put some restrictions on campaign spending. (Many of the restrictions put in place by that bill were thrown out by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010.) "It's going to be a tough battle.”
With control of the House and Senate, congressional Republicans have the power to ram through a series of measures — including repealing limits on what political parties can get from individual donors — that are inscribed in the GOP’s official party platform.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/17/13626082/republicans-campaign-finance
