Politics

DISCLOSE Act Liveblog

By Paul Blumenthal

57-41 cloture fails.

Olympia Snowe votes “no” on DISCLOSE Act cloture vote. For full live-blog see below:

The Senate is getting ready to vote on the DISCLOSE Act. I’ll be keeping tracks of the votes here.

Currently, Sen. Mitch McConnell is lambasting the bill as a partisan attempt to “rig the midterm elections” in favor of the Democrats. You can see our take on that stance here. McConnell’s arguments amount to a belief that disclosure mandates and requirements on certain types of speech that effect elections are equal to banning said speech.

“Democrats are trying to pull us off an agenda to create jobs to protect their jobs…” McConnell.

More Founding Fathers-theism. If they were here… they’d probably be really weirded out by all the technology and the lack of slaves.

Reid handing over the podium to Sen. Chuck Schumer.

“[McConnell] speaks for transparency in this body… but opposes a bill to bring transparency to our politics” – Schumer

“All we’re saying is you’re attacking us put your name on the ad.” – Schumer

(Am wondering if the speeches would be this canned and predictable if they weren’t televised.)

Yielding back to Majority Leader Reid: “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…”

Vote time. This is the cloture vote. Sixty votes are needed for the Senate to move on to an actual vote. Sen. Joe Lieberman is not present for the vote.

(might miss some of these as they can come fast and in bunches)
Yeas:
Baucus
Bayh
Begich
Bennet (CO)
Bingaman
Boxer
Brown (OH)
Kerry
Goodwin
Leahy
Levin
Feingold
Nelson (NE)
Reed
Reid
Rockefeller
Shaheen
Stabenow
Warner
Webb
Whitehouse
Tester
Lautenberg
Cantwell
Wyden
Inouye
Johnson
Franken
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Kaufman
Landrieu
Gillibrand
Durbin
Kohl
Hagan
Cardin
Carper
Specter
Lincoln
Dorgan
Akaka
Nelson (FL)
McCaskill
Dodd
Feinstein
Casey
Burris

Nays:
Alexander
Brown (MA)
Brownback
Bunning
Corker
Grassley
Inhofe
Johanns
Lugar
McCain
Roberts
Shelby
Vitter
Bennett (UT)
Wicker
Murkowski
Burr
Risch
Barrasso
Sessions
Crapo
Hatch
Snowe
Hutchison
Bond
Voinovich
Reid (voting no solely to bring the measure back up again in the future)
Cochran
Chambliss
Coburn
DeMint
Collins

Full post as published by Sunlight Foundation on July 27, 2010 (boomark / email).