Banning straw purchases. Criminals and other individuals barred from buying guns themselves often obtain their weapons through legal buyers. Information about our spending habits, financial transactions, medical records, and personal interests are stored in computers across the country, to be examined and cross-referenced by anyone willing to pay for it. Democrats support steps to protect our privacy. This law creates tougher state penalties for those who take on the identity of another person for the purpose of stealing or other unlawful acts.
Seniors are often the targets of such fraud.
There is still more work to be done. Democrats will fight for greater protections for the confidentiality of medical records and other private documents, as well as information transmitted via the Internet. When elected officials betray the public interest in the pursuit of campaign cash, they erode the very foundation of representative government. Democrats will continue to fight for meaningful campaign finance reform. Democrats support efforts to keep big money out of politics, to require full disclosure, and to maintain the integrity of our democratic system.