Biden to make remarks Tuesday on election transparency bill
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[September 20, 2022]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.
President Joe Biden will deliver remarks on Tuesday about a bill that
would require super PACs and certain other groups to disclose donors who
contributed $10,000 or more during an election cycle.
The bill is slated for a Senate vote this week, top Senate Democrat
Chuck Schumer said Monday, as Democrats seek to boost election
transparency ahead of the November midterms after failing to pass more
ambitious voting rights legislation earlier this year.
"There is no justification under heaven for keeping such massive
contributions hidden from the public," Schumer said.
The measure, known as the DISCLOSE Act, was initially included in
Democrats' voting rights bill that sought to counteract voting
restrictions in Republican-led states. That package passed the House in
January but died in the Senate due to stiff Republican opposition.
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Proponents of the state measures said they were necessary to counter
fraud, which Republican former President Donald Trump has falsely
claimed led to his 2020 election defeat.
Democrats have accused Republicans at the state level of enacting
policies to make it harder for racial minorities who tend to support
Democratic candidates to cast ballots.
"In state after state, Republican state legislatures are engaged in an
unprecedented effort to suppress the sacred right to vote and subvert
the American bedrock of free and fair elections," Biden said when Senate
Republicans voted to block the broader voting rights effort in January.
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U.S. President Joe Biden exits the
polling station after voting in the Delaware primary, in Wilmington,
Delaware, U.S., September 13, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Republicans in turn accuse Democrats of attempting a federal
takeover of election laws.
The DISCLOSE ACT, if approved, would also require groups spending
money on judicial nominees to disclose their donors.
The House of Representatives is separately considering a proposal by
Republican Liz Cheney and Democrat Zoe Lofgren clarifying a 135
year-old law to show that the vice president's role in certifying
elections is purely symbollic.
The proposal is a response to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S.
Capitol by Trump supporters, who were trying to stop certification
of Joe Biden's victory, and to pressure from Trump himself on Vice
President Mike Pence to overturn Joe Biden's election win by
decertifying certain slates of electors.
Biden will make the remarks at 1:45 p.m. (1745 GMT) in the Roosevelt
Room of the White House before heading to New York to participate in
the United Nations General Assembly this week.
(Reporting by Alexandra Alper; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Edmund
Klamann)
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