Thread: Senate narrowly defeated Disclose act....

Great work but the hits keep coming we need to stop and or check out the Oil Spill Bill put up my The Pelosi Queen.....they just don't stop and it will get worse we need to be vigilant....

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Congratulations! Thanks to you, the Senate narrowly defeated the DISCLOSE Act yesterday!

We’ll tell you more about our victory in a moment, but first we must tell you that we have more work to do this week. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has scheduled a vote in the House of Representatives on Friday that will destroy tens of thousands of American jobs and make us more dependent on foreign oil. Freedom Action requests that you take a moment today to contact Congress and tell them to vote No on the Oil Spill Bill in its current form. Click here to send your message now.

Recap of the DISCLOSE Vote
Since the House had already passed it, the Senate vote on DISCLOSE was a nail-biter. Monday, President Obama made a last-minute plea. Senator Susan Collins came out against it, but her fellow Republican Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe, was still uncommitted.
Our friends at Tea Party Patriots sent out an alert Monday afternoon (which used the information from Freedom Action’s alert—thanks!) warning Tea Partiers that their First Amendment right to free speech and thus their participation in the election would be severely restricted by DISCLOSE.
Tuesday, with the Senate vote scheduled for 2:45pm, Senator Snowe finally announced at 1:45 that she would vote No. With 60 votes needed to invoke cloture and proceed to the bill, it failed by 57 to 41. All the Republicans voted No, except for Senator John Ensign of Nevada who missed the vote. Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut announced that he would vote Yes, but he also missed the vote. (Click here and enter your zip code to see how your Senators voted on this and other bills.)
But we cannot declare final victory yet. Majority Leader Harry Reid switched his vote to No so that he can use Senate rules to bring it up again if he thinks he has the 60 votes needed. But the Democrats are running out of time to pass DISCLOSE to have it take effect for the 2010 House and Senate elections, which is the whole purpose.
Click Here to Take Action Now on the Job-Killing Oil Spill Bill
The House is scheduled to vote on Friday on a bill to address BP’s Gulf oil disaster. This is the last vote the House will take before starting their August recess. And the Senate plans to vote on its energy and spill bill before the end of next week, when it leaves town. (Speaking of vacations, Jimmy Fallon lately said, "President Obama is going on a 10-day vacation to Martha's Vineyard in August. Obama was like, 'This is my longest vacation ever.' And voters were like, 'Wait 'til you see the one we're planning for you.'")
Congress needs to address shortcomings in law and management revealed by the big offshore oil leak. But these bills go far beyond fixing real problems. They are designed to severely reduce or even end offshore drilling in the Gulf. As fewer new wells are drilled, U. S. oil production in the Gulf will begin to decline. Tens of thousands of high-paying jobs will be destroyed.
Analysis by the Heritage Foundation shows that “if a total ban on offshore drilling is implemented by 2011, then by 2035 Americans could expect national income (GDP) to drop by $5.5 trillion, total costs of imported oil to rise by $737 billion, total disposable income to decrease $54,000 per family of four, and job losses to exceed 1.5 million.â€

Yet more transparency from this out of control government?