Chris Van Hollen: “What this does is allow the American public to finally know who is funding the political ads that they're watching…”

“What this does is allow the American public to finally know who is funding the political ads that they're watching financed by a lot of these shadowy groups. What this does is target it in one very important area, an area that the American public deserves to know, and that is when commercials, TV commercials, are paid for by special interests, Big Money special interests, including foreign corporations, and corporations that are owned or controlled by foreign governments, whether they be China, Iran, Venezuela, whoever it may be, that the American public has a right to know who is paying for those ads. It's simple, it's transparent, and in fact our Republican colleagues even recently said they were in favor of more transparency. Speaker Boehner said on Meet the Press, and I quote: 'I think what we ought to do is we ought to have full disclosure, full disclosure of all the money we raise and how it is spent. I think sunlight is the best disinfectant.' I would hope that would also be true about foreign-controlled corporations trying to secretly finance ads in this country.”