If you look at what happened in early 2010 that might explain why it suddenly ended, you find a Supreme Court decision called Citizens United that allowed unlimited corporate money, unlimited billionaire money to bombard our politics.
Senator Whitehouse links the decline of bipartisan climate action to the Citizens United decision.
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We need to get rid of dark money in our politics because it’s rotting our politics.
Most of the dealbreaker humps we’re over, but now it’s refining the language, taking raw agreements into legislative texts and figuring out what schedule for voting succeeds.
And when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.
The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.
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