Ensign Receiving Tech Award
The Senate, a week after denying the vote to half million DC residents, this week denied Americans full access to vital information about their campaign contributions.
Once again, a single Senator stopped a simple bill that would require Senate candidates to file their campaign finance disclosure reports electronically and that those reports be posted on the internet.
The Senate's traditions and rituals are sometimes entertaining and cute, but this is just bad policy.
Who did it this time? Senator John Ensign (R-NV), pictured at the right receiving, of all things, a technology award. It's probably just from some Washington special interest group and basically meaningless, but the irony kills.
Here's what the WaPo said about it:
THEY SAY three times is a charm -- except when it comes to getting a common-sense bill through the Senate by unanimous consent that would require its members and candidates to file their campaign finance reports electronically.
Here's what my very serious friends at the Campaign Finance Institute said:
He certainly should not be obstructing a long-considered and long-delayed bill that would strengthen the Senate's role as a democratically accountable institution.
And, for what it's worth, here's what I said about it awhile ago.
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