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monday
the senate will vote
on the disclose act
offered by says sheldon whitehouse
it would require large organizations which are spending of over ten thousand
dollars
on any
political activities
they use the neighbor likeness of a political candidate
so i would say within the context of a campaign
to file disclosure reports with the federal government
including the names of of any of those a large donors they would also include a
stand by your add provisions
which would
require
the leading donors essentially to have their names so she did with the admits
some way
uh... there are
had to leave
twenty seven
nor twenty-eight
sponsors in the senate
widely expected that uh... all the democrats will support this
of course
we don't have sixty democrats in the senate
so the republicans will prevent this from coming to a vote
and my understanding is that that uh...
a group of democratic senators will essentially
to hold before
throughout the night
trying to force another vote tomorrow on the disclose act
uh... the ideas of course to uh...
to uh... focus the public's attention on this
you'll remember that one of the parts of
of
citizens united
you had test is that the kennedy
claiming that
this is ok because of disclosure rules
by the uh... federal elections commission and we found that those
disclosure world rules just didn't work
uh... the super packs of found
massive loopholes
and so the names of people who support these things
generally if it comes out of all ends up coming out months and months after the
ads abroad
and uh... just as a side note
said john mccain came out very forcefully for the need for disclosure
and will now be voting against the bill uh... because he's still a republican
and it doesn't look like he uh...
has any hopes of running for president again as a democrat said chances are
you will not hear rafa stories have him
contemplating switching parties
just cuz the guy sell prints a bit