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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 1117 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the ban on contributions and expenditures by foreign nati... · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Short Title; Findings

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This Act may be cited as the . America is for Americans Act Congress finds the following: The Government has a compelling interest in preventing foreign individuals and associations from influencing our Nation's political process. Such entities neither enjoy nor deserve any legal or constitutional right to such influence. The presence of foreign individuals or associations within domestic associations, to any degree, creates an unacceptable risk of foreign influence over our Nation's political process.
The law does not allow foreign individuals and associations to vote in our elections; by the same token, the law should not allow them to exercise any influence over our Nation's political process, directly or indirectly, and neither personally nor in alliance or combination with others.
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