[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 36 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. J. RES. 36

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
 relative to authorizing regulation of contributions to candidates for 
   State public office and Federal office by corporations and labor 
    organizations, and expenditures by corporate entities and labor 
     organizations in support of, or opposition to such candidates.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2010

 Mr. Baucus introduced the following joint resolution; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
 relative to authorizing regulation of contributions to candidates for 
   State public office and Federal office by corporations and labor 
    organizations, and expenditures by corporate entities and labor 
     organizations in support of, or opposition to such candidates.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled   (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after the date of its submission by the Congress:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. Congress shall have the power to regulate the 
contribution of funds by corporations and labor organizations to a 
candidate for election to, or for nomination for election to, a Federal 
office, and the power to regulate the expenditure of funds by 
corporations and labor organizations made in support of, or opposition 
to, such candidates.
    ``Section 2. A State shall have the power to regulate the 
contribution of funds by corporations and labor organizations to a 
candidate for election to, or for nomination for election to, public 
office in the State, and the power to regulate the expenditure of funds 
by corporations and labor organizations made in support of, or 
opposition to, such candidates.
    ``Section 3. Nothing contained in this Amendment shall be construed 
to allow Congress or a State to make any law abridging the freedom of 
the press.''
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