There is indeed. If you look at what happened just last week, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives refused to pass the Disclose Act, a simple piece of legislation that would have said the large donors to these super PACs and the campaign attack ads, we have to find out who they are.
Brian Baird discusses the resistance to transparency in campaign finance and stock trading disclosures.
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The reality is had 20 Members of the Republican conference been killed that day... the balance of power in the House of Representatives would have changed.
We still lack a solution that is either constitutionally valid or functional in practice.
The most troubling response was people who either, A, did not understand the concept of why insider trading by members of Congress would be a problem.
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