Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) is the only one of the Senate’s 48 Democrats whose name does not appear as a co-sponsor of the “Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act of 2021,” also known as the DISCLOSE Act.
First introduced in its current version in February 2021 by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the DISCLOSE Act provides multiple tax and election law changes that would, according to Institute for Free Speech (IFS) President David Keating, do serious damage to the free flow of opinion and political debate in America.
“This bill would harm the rights of Americans guaranteed by the First Amendment to freely speak, publish, organize into groups, and petition. These rights are vitally important to Americans who work to advocate for better government,” Keating told the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration during testimony on the proposal on July 19….