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Wednesday, September 9, 2009  
VIDEO: PRICE INTERVIEWED ON CBS NEWS ABOUT SUPREME COURT CAMPAIGN FINANCE CASE
Washington, D.C. -  Congressman Price was interviewed today by CBS News about a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (Citizens United v. FEC) regarding restrictions on corporate influence of campaigns and elections.  Price joined three other Members of Congress in filing a brief with the court in support of strong campaign finance laws.

Price said he was concerned with indications that the Roberts Court could use this opportunity to overturn century-long restrictions on the corrupting influence of corporate money in federal campaigns.
 
“The last thing we need in this country is to go back a century and once again have loads of unaccounted-for cash dumped into campaigns by corporations,” Price said.  “How on earth could we even consider such a thing?”

Watch the interview on CBS News' website.

The case involves a political group funded by corporate donors, Citizens United, which produced a documentary critical of then-candidate Hillary Clinton.  The Federal Election Commission (FEC) determined that since this communication was designed to influence the outcome of an election that was to occur within 60 days, it violated the legal restrictions on the influence of corporate money in elections.  These restrictions have also applied to labor union money since 1947.  The Supreme Court appears to be using the case to consider the constitutionality of campaign finance laws enacted by Congress over decades.

 
 
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