The nation's largest and most formidable lobbying group is apparently unsatisfied with being able to spend unlimited amounts of cash to influence elections -- they insist they should be able to do so in secret.
Bloomberg News reports that "U.S. companies would lose their ability to secretly finance political advertising run by organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce under a bill being considered by Democratic lawmakers."
The effort, led by Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), would temper the impacts of the monumental Supreme Court ruling this year.
The Chamber forcefully attacked the bill and questioned the intentions of the two Democrats.
"Citizens United is being used as a pretext to pursue much broader regulations of the private sector in the political arena," Steven Law, the Chamber's general counsel, told Bloomberg. "Their interest is to intimidate the business community into unilateral disarmament."
