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Co-Chair Bustos Unveils A Better Deal for Our Democracy

May 21, 2018
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A majority of the American people believe that Washington is completely out of touch with their priorities, and they're right.

They watch Congress and this Administration reward wealthy donors and well-connected special interests, while giving little attention to the issues that really matter to most people.

While honest American workers are doing their best to get by and get ahead, greedy corporations keep stacking the deck for themselves. Special interests spend millions of undisclosed dollars to influence elections. Loopholes shield big corporations from paying their fair share of taxes. Candidates are more concerned with doing what's right by their donors than doing what's right for the country.

Every week, I watch the Republican Congress and the White House make this corrupt system even worse through their raw deal agenda.

Take for one example the GOP Tax Scam: Americans were promised that it was designed for them, but all the data shows that the opposite is true. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center found that 83 percent of the law's tax breaks go to the top 1 percent of earners. Corporate profits have skyrocketed and stock buybacks have surged. Meanwhile, hardworking Americans are left waiting for the massive job growth they were promised as they continue to be threatened with layoffs and watch corporations expanding overseas.

The American people deserve a better deal. It's time to reclaim our democracy and make it work for everyone—not just the greedy few.

Today, I was proud to join with Congressman Sarbanes and House and Senate Leadership to introduce the latest policy plank in our economic agenda: A Better Deal for Our Democracy.

As part of this proposal, we are pledging ourselves to three new goals:

  1. Empower the American voter to ensure representative government

  2. Strengthen our nation's ethics laws to fight special interests

  3. Fix our broken campaign finance system to combat big-money influence

Through these steps we will root out corruption in Washington, strengthen our sacred democratic institutions and ensure people's voices are heard and people's votes count.

Click here to learn more about A Better Deal for our Democracy.