IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 311 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should 
confirm that money is not free speech and that corporations are not 
people for purposes of the First Amendment right to make campaign 
contributions by enacting a constitutional amendment overturning the 
decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Citizens United v. Federal 
Election Commission, and should restore the right of Congress and 
the States to impose limits on the amount of expenditures that may 
be made by candidates and others in support of elections for public 
office by enacting a constitutional amendment overturning the decision 
of the Supreme Court in the case of Buckley v. Valeo. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 12, 2015 
Mr. NOLAN submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
Congress should confirm that money is not free speech 
and that corporations are not people for purposes of 
the First Amendment right to make campaign contribu-
tions by enacting a constitutional amendment over-
turning the decision of the Supreme Court in the case 
of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and 
should restore the right of Congress and the States to 
impose limits on the amount of expenditures that may 
be made by candidates and others in support of elections 
for public office by enacting a constitutional amendment 
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overturning the decision of the Supreme Court in the 
case of Buckley v. Valeo. 
Resolved, 
SECTION 1. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO OVERTURN 
CITIZENS 
UNITED 
DECISION 
AND 
COR-
PORATE CITIZENSHIP FOR PURPOSES OF PO-
LITICAL ACTIVITY. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that, 
in order to overturn the decision of the Supreme Court 
in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commis-
sion (558 U.S. 310), Congress should enact and the States 
should ratify a constitutional amendment providing that 
any right of a corporation, other business organization, 
or other artificial entity to engage in political activity, in-
cluding the making of contributions and expenditures for 
the purpose of influencing an election for public office or 
a ballot measure, is not derived from the first amendment 
but from the laws of the United States and the States, 
and may be exercised only to the extent provided by such 
laws. 
SEC. 2. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO OVERTURN 
BUCKLEY DECISION. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that, 
in order to overturn the decision of the Supreme Court 
in the case of Buckley v. Valeo (424 U.S. 1), Congress 
should enact and the States should ratify a constitutional 
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amendment providing that Congress and the States have 
the authority to impose limits on the amount of expendi-
tures that may be made by candidates and others in sup-
port of elections for public office. 
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