Posted on 05/05/2015 2:08:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Congressional Democrats are pressuring President Barack Obama's FCC to require super PACs and other secretive groups that buy political advertisements to disclose their major funders in those ads. Along with consumer advocates and a former FCC commissioner, some Democrats contend that the agency doesn't need congressional authorization to force super PAC donors to reveal their identities. But it's unclear whether the agency's top dog will have the appetite to act in the face of stiff Republican opposition.
Last week, House Democrats introduced the Keeping Our Campaigns Honest (KOCH) act, a not-so-subtle jab at the billionaire Koch brothers, whose political network plans to spend almost $900 million on the 2016 presidential and congressional races. The bill directs the FCC to revise its rules to force groups that fund broadcasts dealing with politics or other controversial issues of "public importance" to disclose the names of "significant donors." The legislation, unsurprisingly, doesn't have support from the men who inspired it.
“This is little more than an effort to limit First Amendment free speech through a regulatory agency’s actions," said Mark Holden, senior vice president and general counsel for Koch Industries. "It is unconstitutional and should be dead on arrival in Congress."
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House democrats should have named the stimulus the SOROS Act — Squandering Our Resources On Sh*t!
‘Rats must have all their front groups and cutouts in place.
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