Constitutional Amendment Not Needed: Congress Already Has a Remedy | Truthout

Constitutional Amendment Not Needed: Congress Already Has a Remedy Truthout: Supreme Court decisions legalizing private interest financing of election campaigns have enabled a vast increase in private interest control over our federal government. The 1 percent contribute hundreds of millions of dollars in election campaigns to empower themselves and disempower the 99 percent. To keep that money flowing to themselves, elected officials waste enormous sums of taxpayer's money on government contracts, subsidies, bailouts, wars and tax cuts for the rich.?