The Senate failed to close debate on the DISCLOSE Act,...
The Senate failed to close debate on the DISCLOSE Act, as expected (CD July 27 p8). S-3638 responds to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Citizen’s United. Splitting on party lines, senators voted 57-41, falling short of the 60 votes needed…
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to end debate. The vote was “disappointing but not unexpected,” because Republicans were under great pressure to vote no, bill sponsor Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters. Democrats will hold another vote on the bill as soon as they can convince a Republican to support it, he said. Schumer is open to editing the bill to get the 60th vote, he said. He declined to guess when the vote would occur. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he hoped the Senate will pass the bill before political advertising for the November election heats up. “This new law will not stifle anyone’s speech or their ability to advertise -- it merely requires them to do so out in the open,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said on the Senate floor. Big corporations should be required to stand by their ads, agreed Schumer. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters that the bill is a “transparent effort” by Democrats to “rig the November election.” The latest version of the Senate bill doesn’t contain lowest-unit-charge provisions that broadcasters opposed.