[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17769]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               CALLING ATTENTION TO DIRTY POLITICAL MONEY

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to call attention to the 
corrosive, pernicious, and corrupting effect of dirty money. What is 
dirty money? That is money that comes into American politics in the 
millions, multiples of millions; money that comes in offering to fund 
campaigns that smear, distort, and deliver untruths to voters; and 
money that was made much easier to come into our political environment 
through the Supreme Court case known as Citizens United v. FEC.
  We need to take action to make sure that Americans know who is 
funding these messages that are coming across their airwaves and that 
the identity of these sponsors is disclosed so that people can make a 
good choice. Never let the day come that any public servant has to face 
a torrent of nasty, nasty commercials over the airwaves without the 
voters even knowing who paid for them, who sponsored them, and who 
wants them to believe the untruths put in many of these ads.

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