The people of our country have spoken time and time again: They want less money in politics, not more. And what I hear from our colleagues on the other side is that we should roll back 100 years of legislative action by this body. The regressive decision by the Supreme Court has turned the keys of electoral government over to big corporations in the United States. Make no mistake, it's as if the Supreme Court rolled up to the drive-thru window and just super-sized the campaign contributions of corporate America. In the Constitution it says 'We the people.' 'We the People,' not 'We the corporations.' 'We the people of the United States of America.' Corporations don't vote in our electoral process, people do. This is about the people of our country and not having their voices drowned out in the electoral process. We need to make sure that the DISCLOSE Act gives further teeth so that foreign governments don't influence our domestic elections. We're not going to outsource and offshore our elections. Let's stand up for the American people and the balance of power in our country.
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Boccieri addresses the influence of money in politics and the need for the DISCLOSE Act.
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