Sen McConnell Slams Effort to Revive DISCLOSE Act

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed the effort by Democrats to bring the DISCLOSE Act to a vote in the Senate. Saying that the country wants to focus on jobs and the economy, Sen McConnell (R-KY) said instead the Democrats are pushing a bill about transparency in elections that "was drafted behind closed doors without hearings, without testimony, and without any markups." The bill, he said, "picks and chooses who gets the right to engage in political speech and who doesn't." The bill passed the House in June but failed to get a vote in the Senate when it came a handful of votes short of defeating a filibuster. The Republicans are expecting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to schedule the bill for a vote Thursday (Sept. 23).