Senate Rules Committee Vets DISCLOSE Act

The Senate Rules Committee is holding a hearing March 29 on the DISCLOSE Act, a bill that would require the Super PACs, corporations, unions and nonprofits who can directly fund political ads to better identify the source of that funding in those ads. The bill is a pared-down version of a bill introduced following the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision allowing such funding of electioneering ads in the run-up to federal elections.