Snowe "No" Vote Kills Campaign Finance Bill
The Hill reports:
Senate Democrats again failed to advance stalled campaign finance legislation on Thursday, dealing another blow to the bill's chances of final passage.
The legislation, known as the Disclose Act, is intended as a response to a Supreme Court decision earlier this year that relaxed limits on political spending by corporations and unions. A cloture vote Thursday afternoon to move forward on the legislation failed 59-39. Sixty votes were needed for passage.
Centrist GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe's (Maine) announcement earlier Thursday that she would again vote against the legislation, after casting doubt on its constitutionality, virtually confirmed the second cloture vote would fail. A previous cloture vote on the legislation in August failed on a 57-41 vote.
Even though the vote did not succeed, it gives Democrats an opportunity to rail against Republicans for obstructing a measure they say will help keep reasonable limits on outside political spending by requiring transparency and disclosure of expenditures.
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