DISCLOSE Act Passes the House, Now on to the Senate

The DISCLOSE Act has passed a major hurdle tonight as the House of Representatives passed the major reforms to campaign finance law with a final vote of 219 to 206 in favor. Unfortunately, however, only two Republicans -- Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) and Joseph Cao (R-La.) -- had the gonads to cross party lines, which is likely an indication of the party line treatment the bill will get once it reaches the Senate. Of course the irony there is that the legislation was introduced by the Senate and not the House.

On April 29th of last year, democrats launched the DISCLOSE Act, a bill intended to soften the powerful effect of the Citizens United ruling, which relaxed campaign advertising rules for corporations, unions, and other companies. The ramifications of the Supreme Court ruling has been widely covered, so I will not go into detail here, but you should absolutely search the Net for information about the case if you are not familiar with it, as it stands to change everything about the way we are governed, live, work, and vote. The influence of money on politics in this country is astounding already, but the Citizens United ruling removes all boundaries, essentially making it so that there really is no limit to what money can buy.
If the DISCLOSE Act were to be passed by the Senate,