Washington, DC—New polls find that voters in 19 of the most competitive Congressional districts believe that Congress has done too little to reduce the influence of special interests in Washington, and that candidates who support comprehensive campaign finance reform legislation will be rewarded with greater support from voters.

On February 25, the House Ethics Committee released its long-awaited report on whether a group of U.S. House members had been influenced by campaign contributions to secure earmarks for the clients of PMA Lobbying Group. All seven members under investigation were exonerated. The report also highlights what we all know to be true—pay-to-play politics is business as usual in our nation’s capital.

Washington, D.C.—U.K. based BAE Systems was fined $400 million yesterday after pleading guilty to charges that it “knowingly failed to ensure compliance with legal prohibitions on foreign bribery,” according to the Associated Press. The company concealed payments, paid advisors through offshore shell companies, and assisted advisers in avoiding tax liabilities.

Voters are disillusioned with Congress and concerned about the influence of special interests on their elected officials, according to a national survey conducted by the bipartisan pair of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (D) and McKinnon Media (R) and released on Monday.This new polling, combined with the wave of support for the bipartisan Fair Elections Now Act in and outside of Congress in the wake of the US Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, shows significant momentum for this legislation to change the way Washington works.

In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said that Wall Street campaign donors have “buyers’ remorse,” for donating to Democratic candidates and are now reconsidering their campaign giving. Below is a statement from David Donnelly, national campaigns director for Public Campaign Action Fund.

Washington, DC – Public Campaign Action Fund, a national campaign finance watchdog group, named Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) its second “Insurance Puppet” in an online advertising campaign targeting Connecticut and Washington, D.C.