During a speech given in Texas last night, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder criticized legal challenges launched by states — including Florida — against the section of the Voting Rights Act that requires approval
Last week, New Mexico Senator Tom Udall, along with six of his fellow Democratic colleagues, proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow Congress to regulate the campaign finance system. Long an advocate of campaign finance reform, Udall seeks to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in More…
U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette and Jared Polis, both Colorado Democrats, have once again introduced the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (FRAC Act) to regain federal regulatory authority over the natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
DeGette and Polis unsuccessfully ran the legislation last session, More…
The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has the authority to block a controversial plan to ship radioactive waste over the Great Lakes.
Last week the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission approved a plan to ship 16-school bus sized steam generators from the Bruce Nuclear Station on Lake Huron More…
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) spokesman Jim Manley has confirmed that the DISCLOSE Act will be brought up for debate tomorrow and a possible vote on Thursday in the Senate. “We’re debating DISCLOSE Act tomorrow w/ vote Thursday,” he tweeted to followers just an hour ago.
With the DISCLOSE Act still stalled in the Senate, President Obama took the opportunity on Saturday to scold the GOP leadership for its recalcitrance in working with Democrats at all on campaign finance issues.
The Hill is reporting that Senate Democrats are considering putting the DISCLOSE Act on a diet and sending it up for another vote as early as next week. Under the new strategy, supplemental provisions prohibiting political spending by some government contractors and companies with 20 percent of more foreign More…
The New York Times editorializes today about the failure of the DISCLOSE Act, chastising Republicans for seeking “the right to poison the political atmosphere without being held accountable for their speech.” That said, the Times also noted that the bill’s supporters didn’t help their cause by tacking on a More…
Just hours before the cloture vote is set to take place, one of the country’s largest labor unions, the AFL-CIO, issued a statement registering its official opposition to the Senate version of the DISCLOSE Act:
Republicans aren’t exactly warming to Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) new language in the DISCLOSE Act, intended to treat disclosure requirements on campaign spending from unions and corporations more equitably. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who was hardly considered “in play” in today’s cloture vote, nonetheless felt compelled to release a More…
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