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Published: 07/27/10

Campaign-Finance Disclosure Bill Fails In the Senate

By  Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily
Campaign-Finance Disclosure Bill Fails In the Senate

Senate Republicans blocked a bill Tuesday that would force American companies and interest groups to disclose their roles in federal elections more than ever before. Democrats failed to end the Republican filibuster of the DISCLOSE Act on a 57-41 vote, essential ending the bill's chances for passage this year. All Republicans opposed the bill, while nearly all Democrats voted in favor of it. Democrats needed 60 votes to move it to final consideration. Democrats wrote the bill in early 2010 to blunt the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Citizens United v. FEC, which ...

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Published: 07/12/10

Climate Bill on the Table, Immigration Off as Democrats Rush to Pass Priorities

By  Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily
Climate Bill on the Table, Immigration Off as Democrats Rush to Pass Priorities

Nearly six months are left in 2010, but lawmakers on Capitol Hill have only a handful of work weeks left until they head home to their states and districts for an extended August recess, and then wrap up the year early in the fall to focus full time on defending their seats in Congress in the midterm elections. The compressed work schedule means that Democrats in Washington are duking it out over which issues get attention this year and which ones will have to wait for another day. The first leg of Congress' summer sprint starts Tuesday morning, when the House and Senate both return from a ...

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Published: 07/11/10

Seven Things Republicans Were For, Before They Were Against Them

By  Jill Lawrence - Politics Daily
Seven Things Republicans Were For, Before They Were Against Them

I happened to be in the room the day John Kerry said he had voted for a war-financing bill before he voted against it. Republicans appropriated the sentence (uttered at a 2004 town hall for veterans in Huntington, West Virginia) and used it to paint Kerry as a flip-flopper. Six years later, it's a better fit for the GOP than it ever was for him. So many Republicans have changed their ideas on so many major issues that it's hard to keep up. With the return of Congress this week, two of those issues – campaign finance disclosure and climate change – could play out in the Senate over ...

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Published: 04/29/10

Opinion: Campaign Finance Bill -- A Striking Display of Partisanship

By  not in system - AOL News
Opinion: Campaign Finance Bill -- A Striking Display of Partisanship

(April 29) -- Congressional Democrats unveiled their response to the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision Thursday, after spending months crafting the bill behind closed doors and failing to garner more than two House Republican co-sponsors. The Disclose Act, drafted by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., seeks to halt the impact of the court's ruling, which freed companies, unions and nonprofit groups to air ads advocating the election or defeat of candidates. But the crass partisanship on display in the legislation is striking. ...

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