Why Senate Republicans Want to Debate Campaign Finance Reform
Via the National Journal
September 9, 2014 Senate Democrats have made campaign finance reform a key plank of their preelection messaging, with Majority Leader Harry Reid denouncing outside spending from the floor regularly and Democrats blasting the corrosive influence of outside money in email plea after email plea.
Not surprisingly, Republicans signaled their intention to combat a Democratic constitutional amendment as it came to the floor this week. So opposed to the measure are Republicans that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a leading opponent of campaign spending limits, wrote an oped promising the amendment’s defeat.
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