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Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes Congress and the states to regulate and set reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections.
Grants Congress and the states the power to implement and enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation, and to distinguish between natural persons and corporations or other artificial entities created by law, including by prohibiting such entities from spending money to influence elections.
Declares that nothing in this amendment shall be construed to grant Congress or the states the power to abridge the freedom of the press.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S.J.Res. 19 as reported to Senate with amendment(s) on Jul 17, 2014. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Sep 8, 2014Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveSep 11, 2014
Senate Sep 8, 2014 · the primary vote
Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S.J.Res. 19
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to
79 Yea 18 Nay 3 not voting
Crossed both parties 18 of 97 voting members broke with their own party: 18 Republicans.
DemocratsIndependentsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
100 members on this roll call, from the official Senate record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor S.J.Res. 19 and vote against it. 14 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named S.J.Res. 19 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
66 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.