The Senate failed yesterday to garner the 60 votes necessary to invoke cloture to consider the DISCLOSE Act. The final vote was 59-39. This makes it very unlikely that the bill will be passed before the election, and there’s almost no chance it could be passed after the Republican gain seats in Congress. This means [...]
Posts Tagged: incumbent protection
DISCLOSE Act is Dead – for Now
We cut it extremely close, but thanks to your efforts, we prevailed in today’s Senate cloture vote on the DISCLOSE Act (or as it should be called, “the Establishment Protection Act”). The Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster by a final tally of 59-39. This one vote victory showcases [...]
Senate to Vote on DISCLOSE ACT Today!
The Senate will likely vote on the DISCLOSE Act again TODAY. That’s why we’re sending this message earlier than normal. It’s urgent that you act quickly. Incumbents banded together in 2002 to make it effectively a crime, punishable by jail, for a non-profit group like DownsizeDC.org to broadcast issue ads during the final days of [...]
Who is Campaign for Liberty?
During the fight over DISCLOSE (a.k.a. the Establishment Protection Act) this last June, Representative Susan Davis commented on the U.S. House floor that she had been receiving calls from Campaign for Liberty members and tried to use our activism to justify voting for the First Amendment-shredding bill. In response, C4L members bombarded Davis’ office with [...]
Repeal Incumbent Protection Laws
Quote of the Day: “It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds office only because, in a two-man race against another mediocrity, a modest majority of those half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered reckoned that he was the lesser [...]
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