Today, I released my plan to fix a broken Washington and restore accountability and transparency to the political process. It's no secret that unless we address these process issues head on, all the other policies we care about -- a public option, equality in the military, extending unemployment benefits, ending tax benefits for companies that ship jobs overseas -- will be in jeopardy.
The driving idea behind my plan is that our democracy is about one person, one vote, not one corporation or one special interest, one vote. The political process must not be subverted by corporate spending without transparency. That's why my plan includes a constitutional amendment that allows Congress to ban corporate financing of political campaigns, something I wrote a diary about last week. The recent Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case undermines the core American value that guarantees that our voters, not special-interest groups and corporations, decide the future of our country.