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Originally Posted by dc_dux
The House passed the DISCLOSE Act back in June with only two Republican votes.
The Senate Republicans blocked it repeatedly.
While it is far from perfect, it was a first step towards correcting the abuses that resulted from the Citizens United decision. |
This is one of the more frustrating things about American politics lately. People seem to only pay attention during the last couple weeks of an election and completely lack context for why something did or did not happen. So now, two weeks out, people say "Why didn't the Democrats do X?" and all too often it is for the very same reason that the DISCLOSE Act didn't pass. Yet no one blames the party that blocked the legislation. (To be fair, this is also the result of Democrats doing a terrible job of pointing it out.)