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The bill was changed again to say that any organization that has been in existence for at least a decade and has at least 500,000 dues-paying members spread among all 50 states would be exempt from having to disclose its donors. The measure's chief sponsor, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said it would "help ensure that the American people know who is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to influence their vote and prevent a takeover of our democracy by powerful special interests." Critics disputed that, noting that Van Hollen is also the head of the Democratic campaign effort in the House. "This bill is nothing less and nothing more than an attempt to change the laws of campaign finance to silence the critics of one party in order to give it an advantage over the other," Republicans on the House Administration Committee wrote after Democrats won approval in the panel on a party-line vote.
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