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.
It’s official: A Minnesota disclosure law, enacted in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, was upheld by a federal judge on Monday.
The New York Times has a good article about how 501(c)4 organizations are increasingly being utilized to influence elections by donors who appreciate that they are exempt from disclosure, but the piece is receiving criticism from some lawyers for perpetuating a popular misconception that could embolden some groups to jeopardize More…
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.
Now that Congress is back in session, so too are calls to revive the DISCLOSE Act, a bill intended to mandate disclosure of the primary donors behind political spending — and one which fell just two votes shy in the Senate before recess. The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne notes More…
A lot of the focus on campaign spending during this electoral cycle has centered on outside conservative groups, partly because they are new and partly because they’ve announced they’ll raise and spend so much. Democratic-leaning independent groups, however, once dominated the game of using the tax code in novel ways More…
Sunday’s Washington Post has a good story detailing why the IRS, which has become the de facto agency for overseeing nonprofit groups’ independent expenditures on political campaigns, is not exactly cut out for the job.
A relatively obscure document released by the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday bodes particularly ill for the chances of any form of meaningful campaign finance disclosure from independent groups during the upcoming election cycle.
The document in question is a “Statement of Reasons” released by the FEC’s three Republican More…
Writing yesterday about Sunlight Foundation co-founder Ellen Miller’s criticism of White House council Bob Bauer and his commitment to transparency and disclosure, I may have spoken a tad hastily. Although Miller didn’t explicitly cite it in her post, it appears that Bauer does indeed have a long track 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:
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