[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3025-3026]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        SUPPORT THE DISCLOSE ACT

  (Ms. HAHN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. HAHN. I would like to thank my colleague, Congressman Ted Poe, 
for giving a shout-out to the PORTS Caucus, showing this country that 
we can

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work together on issues that matter to the people of America.
  Mr. Speaker, yesterday was Super Tuesday, but this year's campaign 
has been anything but super. Thanks to the Supreme Court's misguided 
decision in the Citizens United case, a handful of Super PACs, funded 
by billionaires and special interest groups, have dominated this year's 
elections. But it doesn't have to be this way. Four years ago, the 
Republican nominee for President, John McCain, was a leading voice in 
reforming how we pay for campaigns. In this body, Republican Chris 
Shays fought to clean up elections.
  That's why I've come to the floor today, to ask my Republican friends 
to join with me and with people like John McCain and Chris Shays in 
supporting the DISCLOSE Act, a law that would shine a very bright light 
on these Super PACs. This law would let us know who is paying for these 
ads, and it would require these invisible power brokers to appear in 
their ads just like the candidates do. If we came together to change 
this, it really would be super.

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