US Chamber Targeted Senate in 2016 Dark Money Spending
by Robert Kropp
Public Citizen reports that only the National Rifle Association spent more than the Chamber of
Commerce�s $30 million during the 2016 federal election.
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A few years ago, I applied for an investigative journalism fellowship with the Edmond J. Safra
Center for Ethics at Harvard University. The monograph I proposed to write would have addressed the
activities of the United States Chamber of Commerce, specifically its spending on federal
elections.
�In January 2010,� I wrote in my proposal, �came the US Supreme Court's
controversial Citizens United decision, which effectively removed limits to corporate political
spending. The Chamber had a hand in that decision, having filed a brief before the Court in which
it argued 'that the fact that a speaker is a corporation is not a constitutional basis for
suppressing its independent political speech.'�