Ben Ray Luján supports legislation that will get corporate money out of elections and close loopholes allowing foreign companies to influence elections.
Support legislation to get corporate money out of elections and close loopholes that allow foreign companies to influence elections.
Occurrences
Evidence
Congress.gov lists Rep. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico's 3rd District as a cosponsor of H.R.5175, the DISCLOSE Act, added on 05/11/2010.
Congress.gov's CRS summary says the DISCLOSE Act applied the foreign-national campaign spending ban to foreign-controlled domestic corporations and required corporate certification before election-related spending.
The House Clerk records Roll Call 391 on the DISCLOSE Act as passed, 219-206; Lujan, Democrat of New Mexico, voted Aye.
Congress.gov lists Rep. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico's 3rd District as a cosponsor of H.R.1, the For the People Act of 2019, added on 01/09/2019.
Congress.gov summarizes H.R.1 as addressing political spending, expanding the ban on foreign nationals contributing to or spending on elections, expanding disclosure rules, and establishing small-donor matching for certain federal offices.
The House Clerk records Roll Call 118 on H.R.1, the For the People Act, as passed, 234-193; Lujan, Democrat of New Mexico, voted Yea.
H.R.1 text includes a Campaign Finance Transparency division, a DISCLOSE Act subtitle, provisions clarifying foreign-national participation prohibitions, corporate certification requirements, and audits for illicit foreign money in federal elections.
Congress.gov lists Sen. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico as an original cosponsor of S.1, the For the People Act of 2021, on 03/17/2021.
Congress.gov lists Sen. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico as a cosponsor of S.2747, the Freedom to Vote Act, added on 12/09/2021.
Congress.gov lists Sen. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico as an original cosponsor of S.1, the Freedom to Vote Act, on 07/25/2023.
Assessments
The promise was to support legislation, not necessarily to secure final enactment. During the House term following his 2008 campaign, Ben Ray Lujan cosponsored and voted for the DISCLOSE Act in 2010, which targeted foreign-controlled corporate election spending and corporate political-spending disclosure. He later cosponsored and voted for H.R.1, the For the People Act of 2019, which included campaign-finance transparency, foreign-election-spending restrictions, and related reforms. These actions directly match the promised legislative support in the same federal office context.