Hill Briefing: Getting Foreign Funds Out of America's Elections

Among other things, this election interference included covert Russian spending on online political ads designed to sway public opinion. The Brennan Center released a report  that offers a comprehensive set of reforms that answers these calls to strengthen America’s defenses against foreign powers spending on political messages.
This briefing will examine the first comprehensive package of campaign finance reforms to address the threat of foreign spending in American elections. Panelist will outline a roadmap that Congress, states and the social media companies can follow to proactively protect the integrity of our democracy from political spending.

Young Mie Kim, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ann Ravel, @annmravel Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Former Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Tamari Ramishvili  Program Assistant, Alliance for Securing Democracy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Laura Rosenberger, @rosenbergerlm Senior Fellow and Director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Ian Vandewalker, @ianvandewalker Senior Counsel, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
For more information or if you have any questions, please contact Anthony Thomas-Davis at davisa@brennan.law.nyu.edu.