The New York Times editorializes on the escalating price of campaigning and the need to pass the Fair Elections Now Act.

Speaking about the Fair Elections Now Act at a forum at the Center for American Progress, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) commented that President Lyndon Johnson wouldn't have been able to pass Medicare in today's political climate.

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A recent editorial in the New Jersey Star-Ledger presents the Fair Elections Now Act as a needed reform and urges readers to call on their Congressperson to support the legislation.

Sen. Dick Durbin, the lead sponsor of the Fair Elections Now Act in the Senate, went on Bill Moyers Journal to discuss his issues with the banking industry and his efforts to create a public financing system for congressional campaigns.

The Fair Elections Now Act was introduced in both chambers of Congress yesterday. The bipartisan bill, introduced by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) will help end the campaign money chase on Capitol Hill and make elections about voters, not wealthy interests.

 

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