Just before Thanksgiving in the House of Representatives, Rep. Ted Deutsch of Florida introduced H.J.Res. 90, and a few days later Bernie Sanders followed suit with a Senate counterpart, S.J.Res. 33. The two bills, which contain identical text, are a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment reads: Section 1. The rights protected by [...]

If passed and ratified, a proposed constitutional amendment would end the legal status of corporations as persons, and stop the current practice of unlimited independent congressional campaign funding with money that comes from undisclosed sources. Many Democrats in Congress have done a lot of talking about taking a stand against the idea of corporate personhood. Now that they have the opportunity to take concrete action on the issue, what are they actually doing?

Corporations say that these changes are necessary to help them create jobs, but as James Moran pointed out, the truth is that corporations already have the resources necessary to create jobs, but are refusing to pitch in. They want those extra profits to go to the top 1 percent, not to create jobs for working America.

This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Fair Elections Now Act, legislation that would establish a public-funding system for congressional elections to counterbalance the corrupting influence of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.

Only one piece of legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday: A law to make America’s infamously low corporate taxes even lower.

Seven county officials of the New York State Republican Party got together in a closed room last week and chose Jane Corwin as the Republican Party selectee for a special election to replace disgraced Republican Christopher Lee in the 26th District seat of the United States Congress. Just who is Jane Corwin? One way to [...]

U.S. Representative John Hall is sounding his own alarm as part of the movement against independent expenditures.

In his winning bid for the 15th District congressional seat in Ohio, Steve Stivers took $888,080 in Political Action Committee money from various corporate interests. On top of that, he raked in $735,153 from corporate executives and lobbyists. 3 out of 4 dollars contributed to Steve Stivers came from these sources. And now that he’s [...]

The congressional campaigns of 2010 are the first in modern American history in which political corporations have gained the power to make unlimited independent expenditures in favor or against candidates, with absolutely no requirement that they disclose their donors. The only activity of these groups still publicly documented by the Federal Election Commission is the [...]

Do you remember the days when the populist website MoveOn.org attracted the attention (and conservative derision) of millions of people through its splashy advertisements attracting eyeballs and starting conversations around America? Those days are gone. MoveOn’s latest e-mail appeal: Dear MoveOn member, Let me get straight to the point: Right now there are just 9 [...]