Before an election, money pours into the coffer of candidates. And
because of online reporting, the press, citizens and you can see which lobby groups are trying hardest to buy their
lawmakers' favor.
Except
if the candidate is running for the Senate.
Election rules require every candidate for the House of Representatives and the Presidency to file finance reports
online with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Voters can immediately see which interest groups are supporting each
candidate.
Yet despite nearly seven years of grassroots efforts, the Senate has refused to subject itself to the same rule.
Senators file their campaign finance reports on paper, and then taxpayers pay a quarter of a million dollars for those
paper results to be entered into a computer, which is then shared with the public months after the contributions are
made and weeks after they filed. Members of the public go into the voting booth not knowing who has paid for the
campaigns of the people for which they are voting. In 2004, voters entered the voting booth while $53 million in
campaign contributions were still unreported.
Now there's a way to change this. It's time to bring some transparency to the Senate. Please tell your Senators
that you want them to support the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act (S. 223), a bill that would require FEC reports
to be filed online.
We signed the “Bring Senate Campaigns into the 21st Century Sunlight!” petition!
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1:48 am PDT, Apr 19,Can Atik, Turkey
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1:24 am PDT, Mar 22,Art Deco, Maine
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7:21 pm PDT, Mar 21,JOCELYNE ANNIE, Canada
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4:29 pm PDT, Mar 21,William Harper, Georgia
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11:12 pm PDT, Mar 19,Mary Elizabeth Forman, Washington
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9:08 pm PDT, Mar 18,Suzie Gordon, New Hampshire
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3:19 pm PDT, Mar 15,Name not displayed, Wisconsin
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3:11 pm PDT, Mar 15,BiLL Fowlie, Maine
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11:26 am PDT, Mar 15,Karen Donofrio, Pennsylvania
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12:47 am PDT, Mar 15,Shannon Sultan, Wisconsin
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6:07 pm PST, Mar 5,Johnny GILBERT, New Jersey
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6:11 pm PST, Feb 17,Laura Zanoli, Italy
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10:13 am PST, Feb 10,Amy Anderson, Illinois
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4:07 pm PST, Feb 2,Carl Swanson, California
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7:31 am PST, Jan 21,Kathy Harris, Virginia
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5:03 pm PST, Jan 20,Maureen Gerrish, Massachusetts
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6:24 am PST, Jan 16,Paul Silver, Texas
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5:14 pm PST, Dec 2,Name not displayed, Maine
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6:44 am PST, Dec 1,Name not displayed, Arizona
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7:44 pm PST, Nov 18,Kelly Todd Brewer, Michigan
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1:30 pm PDT, Oct 21,Allison Creekmore, Indiana
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2:33 pm PDT, Oct 15,Zaina Escandon Francis, Guatemala
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9:36 pm PDT, Oct 12,John Tessmer, California
Come on: this is ridiculous! -- No double standards for elected officials...(!).... What are they wanting to hide?...
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1:08 am PDT, Oct 11,Name not displayed, Lebanon
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12:21 am PDT, Oct 9,Diane Loran, Washington
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10:54 am PDT, Oct 3,Chris Korczak, Massachusetts
What happened to open government?
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11:37 am PDT, Sep 18,Kyna Crain, Montana
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4:52 pm PDT, Sep 17,Name not displayed, Kentucky
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10:50 am PDT, Sep 7,Margaret Gotsch, New York
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11:34 am PDT, Sep 4,Holly Swint, Florida
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10:31 am PDT, Sep 3,KC O'Dunn, Florida
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5:52 pm PDT, Sep 2,Name not displayed, California
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2:38 am PDT, Sep 2,Kaytie Irvine, California
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11:52 am PDT, Aug 30,Name not displayed, Michigan
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7:58 pm PDT, Aug 29,Roxie Schliesmann, Wisconsin
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1:52 pm PDT, Aug 27,C. Romanelli, Illinois
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10:21 am PDT, Aug 26,Dee C, New York
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5:48 pm PDT, Aug 25,Br Michael Anthony, Florida
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5:11 am PDT, Aug 22,Brian Sutphin, North Carolina
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8:43 pm PDT, Aug 21,Ross Nicol, Michigan
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9:40 pm PDT, Aug 19,Gared Oudeans, Wisconsin
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4:52 pm PDT, Aug 17,Patricia Osborne, New York
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3:52 am PDT, Aug 17,Chuck Dowe, Massachusetts
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6:16 pm PDT, Aug 13,Nicky Meyer, South Africa
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2:31 am PDT, Aug 12,Allison Holston, California
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5:56 pm PDT, Aug 6,Evan Lavo, Missouri
this is important
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10:31 am PDT, Aug 6,Kelly McConnell, Colorado
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7:32 am PDT, Aug 5,Jennifer Gardner, Florida
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1:39 pm PDT, Jul 31,Perry Englebert, Arizona
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1:13 am PDT, Jul 31,Elijah Stutes, Hawaii
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1:09 pm PDT, Jul 26,Bonnie Lorbiecki, Florida
It's called accountability and responsibilty...what part of that don't you understand?
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3:56 pm PDT, Jul 23,Shawna Wagoner, Michigan
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3:15 am PDT, Jul 23,Catherine Probert, Nevada
It's only right that we know who's supporting your campaign so that we know if your lying to us or not. If your on the up and up than you have nothing to worry about. So how about it people, if you've got nothing to hide than you shouldn't have a problem with doing this.
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2:39 pm PDT, Jul 20,Dana Szemereta, North Carolina
