Thread by @brendan_fischer

Floor votes today and yesterday added several amendments to #HR1, a bill to crack down on political corruption in both parties and strengthen our democracy. 

I want to highlight 3 of the amendments and the problems they aim to solve:

1) In 2018, @CampaignLegal and @lachlan documented how former candidates-turned-foreign agents used leftover campaign funds to donate to the same politicians they were lobbying on behalf of foreign interests... thedailybeast.com/ex-pols-took-y…

...so @USRepKCastor added an #HR1 amendment to end this practice, by requiring former candidates to dispose of leftover campaign funds before registering as foreign agents under FARA. amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/CAS…

2) FARA is supposed to ensure that the public knows when foreign agents are trying to influence them. But you’d likely never know from looking at a tweet or other social media post whether the account is being run on behalf of a foreign power...

...so @RepSpanberger amended #HR1 to require foreign agents to include a disclaimer on the face of any digital communication made on behalf of a foreign interest, and to require that the disclaimer stay with the foreign agent's post if it is shared. amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/SPA…

3) Finally, current campaign finance law has only a 5 year statute of limitations, even if violations aren’t discovered until years later. For example, Louis DeJoy’s alleged 2014 straw donations were only discovered in 2020—which means he might escape accountability for them...

......so @RepSpeier amended #HR1 to extend the SOL to 10 years for civil campaign finance violations, and 15 years for criminal. Under #HR1, wealthy donors can’t run out the clock to outrun the law.

There’s lots more in #HR1 to take power from wealthy special interests and return it to regular voters.

Read about some of #HR1's key provisions here: campaignlegal.org/sites/default/…