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SEC. 205. STRENGTHENING BRIBERY LAWS TO GUARD 
AGAINST 
PUBLIC 
OFFICIALS 
PROFITING 
FROM PUBLIC SERVICE. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that— 
(1) public servants, both elected and unelected, 
should not use public office for personal profit; 
(2) recent court cases have narrowed the scope 
of existing bribery laws, inviting unscrupulous public 
officials to test the outer bounds of the law; and 
(3) Congress must act to ensure public servants 
do not use their public power for private gain or to 
enrich themselves, either directly or indirectly. 
TITLE III—FIXING OUR BROKEN 
CAMPAIGN FINANCE SYSTEM 
SEC. 301. EMPOWERING SMALL DONORS AND DIMINISHING 
THE INFLUENCE OF BIG MONEY CAMPAIGN 
DONORS. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that— 
(1) concentrated money in politics has corroded 
the public’s trust in their representatives and their 
ability to provide fair representation, and is under-
mining faith in the institutions of democracy; 
(2) to reduce corruption or the appearance of 
corruption from the undue influence of the wealthy 
and well-connected donors in our politics, Congress 
should enact bold reforms to our campaign finance 
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system that increase and multiply the power of small 
dollar donors in our democracy; and 
(3) these reforms can provide everyday Ameri-
cans, and the candidates they support, with the tools 
they need to compete with big money, enabling a 
new generation of candidates to run and win office, 
ultimately building a Congress that is more respon-
sive to the public interest, not the special interests. 
SEC. 302. DISCLOSING ‘‘SECRET MONEY’’ AND PROMOTING 
TRANSPARENCY OF POLITICAL SPENDING. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that— 
(1) undisclosed ‘‘secret money’’ is a scourge on 
our democracy and denies voters the information 
they need to make informed political decisions; 
(2) when individuals or organizations enter the 
political town-square to voice their opinions, they 
should do so openly, honestly, and with the full ben-
efit of transparency; 
(3) in recent years hundreds of millions of dol-
lars have poured into our political system from un-
disclosed sources due to a series of ill-advised court 
decisions, lax enforcement, and a failure to update 
donor disclosure laws; and 
(4) Congress should strengthen our campaign 
finance disclosure laws to shine a bright light on this 
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shadowy political spending and on the sponsors of 
campaign advertisements, thereby giving Americans 
the information they need to make informed political 
decisions. 
SEC. 303. AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION TO REASSERT 
CONGRESS’ AUTHORITY TO REGULATE PO-
LITICAL SPENDING AND TO OVERTURN THE 
CITIZENS UNITED RULING. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that— 
(1) Congress and the States should be able to 
regulate and set reasonable limits on the raising and 
spending of political money; 
(2) the Citizens United court case violated this 
principle by permitting unlimited political spending 
by nominally independent outside organizations; 
(3) in practice, this has created a new wild west 
of outside political spending, empowering the 
wealthiest few to exert even more control over our 
democracy; and 
(4) Congress should move to restore its author-
ity to regulate the raising and spending of political 
money by passing a constitutional amendment to 
overturn Citizens United and other related rulings. 
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SEC. 304. PREVENTING FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN OUR 
ELECTIONS. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that— 
(1) elections in the United States should be the 
sole province of the American people; 
(2) recent efforts by hostile foreign actors to 
disrupt our elections, and thereby our democracy, 
must be met with resolve; and 
(3) Congress should— 
(A) institute a robust set of reforms to cre-
ate real-time transparency of political advertise-
ments on all advertising platforms, ensuring all 
Americans have the information they need to 
judge the source and content of a given political 
advertisement; and 
(B) enact new, stronger prohibitions on po-
litical spending by foreign actors and on spend-
ing by domestic subsidiaries of foreign-owned 
corporations. 
SEC. 305. RESTORING FUNCTION TO THE FEDERAL ELEC-
TION COMMISSION. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that— 
(1) the Federal Election Commission needs ur-
gent repair; 
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(2) hamstrung by its partisan composition, the 
Commission has failed in recent years to live up to 
its mandate of enforcing Federal election law; and 
(3) Congress should enact sensible reform 
measures to restore the Commission’s ability to po-
lice campaign finance violations. 
SEC. 306. STRENGTHENING COORDINATION LAW TO PRE-
VENT CANDIDATE-AFFILIATED SUPER PACS. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that— 
(1) independent political spending must remain 
independent or else it renders contribution limits to 
candidates ineffectual; 
(2) the efforts by some to evade or skirt exist-
ing campaign finance anticoordination law exposes 
the nominal independence of supposedly ‘‘inde-
pendent’’ political spenders who are clearly affiliated 
with particular candidates; and 
(3) Congress should strengthen the anticoordi-
nation statute to— 
(A) shut down candidate-specific super 
PACs; and 
(B) effectively prohibit direct and indirect 
coordination between other outside spenders 
and candidates and parties. 
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