08-09-2019, 05:10 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUSPress/status/11...1099781120
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The context of the budget deal included an agreement to set aside poison pill riders. That commentary does not discuss legacy riders, which are ideological poison pills that members of Congress were forced to swallow so they could pass previous spending bills. Those policies get carried over from one budget cycle to the next, sometimes for decades. The House spending bills removed many legacy riders that blocked crucial campaign finance rules, key public health measures, and important environmental protections. Senate appropriators should certainly also remove them.
The legacy campaign finance policies wrongly prevent the Securities and Exchange Commission from finishing a rule requiring corporations to disclose their political spending, obstruct a rule that would require the disclosure of political spending by federal government contractors, and stop the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department from clarifying the rules on the political activity of nonprofit organizations.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4568...nding-bill
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The context of the budget deal included an agreement to set aside poison pill riders. That commentary does not discuss legacy riders, which are ideological poison pills that members of Congress were forced to swallow so they could pass previous spending bills. Those policies get carried over from one budget cycle to the next, sometimes for decades. The House spending bills removed many legacy riders that blocked crucial campaign finance rules, key public health measures, and important environmental protections. Senate appropriators should certainly also remove them.
The legacy campaign finance policies wrongly prevent the Securities and Exchange Commission from finishing a rule requiring corporations to disclose their political spending, obstruct a rule that would require the disclosure of political spending by federal government contractors, and stop the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department from clarifying the rules on the political activity of nonprofit organizations.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4568...nding-bill