The Democracy Is For People Amendment

Earlier today, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ted Deutch introduced resolutions in both houses of Congress for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

It’s called the Democracy Is For People Amendment. Sen. Sanders and Rep. Deutch named their proposed constitutional amendment after a Public Citizen’s campaign!

The Democracy Is For People Amendment not only would give Congress the authority to regulate money in politics, it also — and without additional congressional action — would end all corporate election spending.

Democracy Is For People is a project of Public Citizen.

Because the government should serve voters, not corporate interests, Public Citizen pushes to curb the influence of money in politics by exposing the influence of big corporations on government, pushing to open the government to public scrutiny and holding public officials accountable for their misdeeds. They do this by engaging citizens in grassroots efforts, undertaking groundbreaking, data-driven research and championing citizen interests before Congress, the executive branch agencies and the courts.

A major focus of their work over the past year has been building a movement to counteract the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

In the past two years, they have also:

•Pressed for restrictions on pay-to-play, the all-too-common practice in which businesses make campaign contributions to public officials in the hopes of winning lucrative government contracts.

•Lobbied to stop insider trading by members of Congress and their staffs by pressing for a bill that would make government officials abide by the same insider trading restrictions as everyone else.

•Recommended ethics rules to the Obama administration; the administration’s policy, announced in January 2009, is stricter than that of any previous administration, and the best aspects are based on our recommendations.

CLICK HERE To learn more about the campaign.










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