How they Voted: the DISCLOSE Act

by: Jason Springer

Fri Jun 25, 2010 at 10:00:00 AM EDT

Prevent U.S. corporations controlled by foreign governments from pumping in secret money to influence U.S. elections;

Require corporate CEOs to stand by their ads in the same way that candidates do, and require corporations and other organizations to disclose their political expenditures;

Prevent large entities receiving taxpayer money - including government contractors and TARP recipients - from making political expenditures;

Stop the manipulation of elections by fly-by-night "hit" groups funded by corporations, special interests, foreign companies, and multimillionaires;

Give shareholders, organization members, and the public the right to know about corporate and interest group campaign expenditures;

DISCLOSE Act YES NO Adler Andrews Holt Pallone Pascrell Payne Sires Frelinghuysen Lance LoBiondo Garrett Smith

Democrats are in blue, and Republicans are in red.

"Would you want Hugo Chavez or Vladimir Putin to attack a candidate in your state using a sham front organization?  Would you want BP to set up 'Americans for Clean Water' so it can discretely run against candidates who stand for accountability? Would you want a corporation that received TARP funding to use taxpayer dollars to run a political ad? This legislation would prevent all of that from happening,"