In a letter sent today, reform groups strongly urged senators and representatives to reject damaging campaign finance riders that have been attached to pending House and Senate Appropriations Committee bills and to oppose any new campaign finance riders that would weaken or undermine the campaign finance laws.
The groups included Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Democracy 21, Issue One, League of Women Voters, Public Citizen and Sunlight Foundation….
According to the letter:
The four damaging campaign finance riders already that have already been added in the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to appropriations bills would:
– Prevent the White House from issuing an Executive Order requiring disclosure of campaign finance activities by government contractors;
– Prevent the IRS from issuing new regulations to stop nonprofit groups from misusing the tax laws to spend secret contributions in federal elections;
– Prevent the SEC from issuing regulations to require public corporations to disclose their campaign-finance activities to their shareholders; and
– Repeal longstanding limits on the amounts that parties can spend in coordination with their candidates.