September 18th, 2010 09:12 AM ET 5 years ago  Obama hammers
Republicans on campaign finance  (CNN) - President Obama used
his weekly radio and internet address Saturday to target Senate
Republicans who are actively opposed to campaign finance
legislation that in part requires special interest groups to
clearly name themselves in television advertisements they put
money behind.  "Now, the special interests want to take Congress
back, and return to the days when lobbyists wrote the laws,"
Obama says in the address. "And a partisan minority in Congress
is hoping their defense of these special interests and the
status quo will be rewarded with a flood of negative ads against
their opponents. It's a power grab, pure and simple."  The
legislation is in response to a Supreme Court ruling last year
that relaxed disclosure laws among special interest groups.
Democrats initially failed to get enough support to bring the
bill for a final vote last July.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell said in response: “In the m