Sheldon Whitehouse

DISCLOSE Act’s Lead Sponsor: We Need Campaign Finance Reform to Protect Incumbents

Tue, 07/17/2012 - 10:15am | posted by George Scoville

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. Photo courtesy of the Office of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.

Following up on my piece last week on the newest version of the DISCLOSE Act, which failed a cloture vote to overcome a GOP filibuster last night, and which will face another cloture vote around 3pm Eastern today, I wanted to share this interview of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), the lead sponsor of S.3369, conducted by progressive talk radio host Sam Seder at this year’s Netroots Nation conference.

Around the 1:35 mark, Sen. Whitehouse says (emphasis added)

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Senate Democrats Try DISCLOSE Act Once More before Election

Wed, 07/11/2012 - 2:48pm | posted by George Scoville

DISCLOSE tweet

That’s a tweet from Roll Call Senate reporter Niels Lesniewski just after breakfast this morning. Instead of taking up annual appropriations, a rudimentary function of annual fiscal business in Congress, Senate Democrats are instead choosing to attempt to squelch political participation before the November elections.

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