Statement of U.S. Senators Russ Feingold and Thad Cochran On Passage of the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act through the Senate Rules Committee March 28, 2007 “Today the Senate is one step closer to catching up with the times. We are very pleased that the Senate Rules Committee has reported a clean version of our bill, the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act. We will ask the Majority Leader to bring the bill up promptly, so that in 2008 candidates for the Senate will be required to file their campaign finance reports electronically, as candidates for President and the House have done for years. This bill was first introduced nearly three and a half years ago and it is time for the Senate to swiftly enact this much-needed reform.”

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