The Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act is a bill that you wouldn’t think anyone could possibly be against. And yet, the Republican leadership in the Senate has gone to considerable lengths to stop it — recently by brazenly insisting on an amendment that would effectively discourage groups from filing ethics complaints against senators. Without that amendment, which Democrats reasonably call a poison pill designed to sink the bill, Republicans say it’s not going anywhere.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179758