{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://steil.house.gov/media/press-releases/steil-introduces-comprehensive-campaign-finance-reforms", "Steil Introduces Comprehensive Campaign Finance Reforms", "2026-05-11", "2026", "2026-05", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Bryan Steil", "S001213", "steil.house.gov", "steil", "https://steil.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (WI-01) introduced the Campaign Finance Transparency Act and the Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act. Together, these comprehensive campaign finance reforms will increase transparency and ensure fraudulent and foreign donations cannot influence political campaigns, individual candidates, or electoral outcomes.\n\nBoth bills will be marked up by the Committee on House Administration later this week.\n\n\u201cMy investigation into ActBlue has demonstrated that the current campaign finance laws weren\u2019t drafted for the modern era we live in. The major gaps we\u2019ve uncovered are being exploited by fraudsters and foreign nationals to make illegal political donations. For example, right now an individual could make a fraudulent donation online in someone else\u2019s name and avoid getting caught. That\u2019s an unacceptable vulnerability that bad actors are taking advantage of,\u201d said Chairman Steil. \u201cWe must increase transparency and update the rules to reflect the technological advances of the 21st century.\u201d\n\nThe Campaign Finance Transparency Act will:\n\nRequire the name on a credit or debit card to match the name of the donor\n\nRemove the de minimis reporting threshold for donors\n\nRequire political contributions via credit or debit card to include CVV/CVC number and billing ZIP code\n\nRequire document verification for donors without U.S. mailing addresses\n\nProhibit contributions via gift cards\n\nProhibit knowingly directing, helping, or assisting any person in making a contribution in the name of another person\n\nRequire suspected straw donations schemes to be reported to the Federal Election Commission\n\nThe Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act will:\n\nProhibit foreign nationals from donating for specified election-related activities, including:\n\nVoter registration drives;\n\nBallot harvesting;\n\nVoter research and polling;\n\nGet Out the Vote initiatives;\n\nAdministration of elections by state or local officials (i.e. Zuckerbucks);\n\nProhibit aiding or facilitating assistance to foreign nationals in making campaign contributions;\n\nPrevent federal agencies from collecting or disclosing tax-exempt donor information, subject to specified exceptions (e.g. IRS, House/Senate lobbying disclosures, in certain situations).\n\nTo read the Campaign Finance Transparency Act click here.", 1, "2026-06-27T21:44:12Z", "2026-06-27T22:21:02Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://steil.house.gov/media/press-releases/steil-introduces-comprehensive-campaign-finance-reforms"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8431940115988255, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}