On a Senate vote of 57-41, Democrats fell short of the needed 60 to clear a procedural hurdle Republicans set up against The Disclose Act, likely killing the measure for the year.
"This bill represents another attempt by my colleagues to rush through legislation that restricts freedom and creates more federal regulation," said Senator John Cornyn, who heads Republican efforts to pickup seats in the Democratic-led chamber in the November election.
Rejection of the measure comes a week after a potentially fatal setback to Obama's push to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Short on votes, Senate Democrats indefinitely postponed their bid to pass broad legislation to combat climate change.
With Obama's support, Democrats crafted the campaign finance bill in response to a Supreme Court decision in January that overturned federal and state limits on independent expenditures by corporations to support or oppose candidates.
6 comments:
The republicans want to keep their corporate donors a secret. Gee I wonder why.
Personally I think members of congress should have to wear uniforms like Nascar drivers do so we can see who are sponsoring them.
Politics as usual. If the exemptions had not been put in place for the NRA, Reps. would have screamed "look how they are using these crazy regulations to hamper grassroots efforts".
gonna have to agree with the dems on this one. i dont like anyone buying my representative, but when they do, i want to know who.
The dumbocrats were going to expempt all those groups that (get payoffs) support the dumbocrats and squeeze just those that support republicans.
5:25, the NRA, one of the biggest REp. backers is also exempt. Don't let the facts get in your way
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