House GOP Fights To Keep Federal Contractor's Donations Secret

[babylonsister]

House GOP Fights To Keep Federal Contractor's Donations Secret
Ryan J. Reilly | May 26, 2011, 4:40PM


Republicans are working on multiple fronts to stop President Barack Obama from making companies bidding on federal contracts disclose their donations to third-party political groups.

The chairmen of the House Oversight Committee and the Small Business Committee have introduced legislation that would ban the federal government from collecting or using information about the political expenditures of federal contractors, allowing them to keep their political donations to third party groups secret. Yesterday, the House passed an amendment to the 2012 defense bill which would prevent federal agencies from collecting such data.

Introduced by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Tom Cole (R-OK) in response to a leaked draft of an executive order the Obama administration was considering which would have mandated federal contractors disclose their donations to third-party groups, the legislation is titled the "Keeping Politics Out of Federal Contracting Act of 2011."

A companion bill is being introduced in the Senate by Susan Collins (R-ME), Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Rob Portman (R-OH).

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[tranche]

1. Do these guys do anything that's in the interest of the "people" anymore?

Geez...

[david_vincent]

2. You don't get it...

in America there is NO SUCH THING as the public interest. There is NO SUCH THING as the common good. There is only individuals acting by and for themselves, to grab as much as they can. Pay no attentiont to the rampant corporate welfare behind the curtain.

Right wingers no longer believe in things like environmentalism, that they used to tout as being in the public interest. The idea of the public interest has been disappeared. The only thing they believe in is private profit, as much of it as possible, and FUCK the suckers who are too stupid to stop them from taking everything they can lay their hands on.