Delauro Responds to 5-4 Ruling By Supreme Court On Citizens United v. FEC

Statement

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) released the following statement in response to the 5-4 Supreme Court decision handed down today in Citizens United v. FEC:

"With this ill-advised spate of judicial activism, five Supreme Court justices have struck down the distinction between individuals and corporations in election law and opened the floodgates to a hostile corporate takeover of our democratic process.

"As Justice Stevens eloquently put it in his dissent from this disastrous decision, "While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics." The ruling by the majority will unleash a raging torrent of corporate cash into our election system, and threatens to undermine and corrode the very functioning of our republic.

"In order to counter this blatant overreaching on the Court's part, it now falls upon us in Congress to stem the tide of special interest influence over our political system. I urge my colleagues to pass the Fair Elections Now Act, which would create a voluntary public financing system for congressional elections. And I hope we can work on other ways to make sure that the voices of the people are always heard more strongly in these halls than the dollars of special interests."

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