SEnate to vote on anti free speech bill today.

[powderman]

Senate Scheduled to Vote on anti-Free Speech Bill on Monday    Senate Scheduled to Vote on anti-Free Speech Bill on Monday
-- DISCLOSE Act Moving Again

Anti-gun Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) really does not want gun owners’ voices to be heard in Washington, D.C.

Anti-gun Democrat leaders have scheduled a vote for Monday, July 16, on the so-called DISCLOSE Act.

You may recall that the DISCLOSE Act passed the House in 2010 but died in the Senate after an intense lobbying effort by Gun Owners of America and other groups.

The bill coming to the floor on Monday, S. 3369, sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, puts severe and unconstitutional limits on GOA's ability to hold individual congressmen accountable in the months leading up to an election.

Instead of protecting the most important type of speech protected by the First Amendment -- political speech -- this bill would force groups like GOA to "disclose" the names of donors in certain political advertisements.

Since Gun Owners of America is not willing to disclose its membership lists to the Federal Election Commission, we could be prohibited from running radio or TV ads exposing a federal candidate's voting record during the election season.

This is just another attempt by pathetic, anti-gun politicians like Harry Reid to save their jobs before the political earthquake in November strikes. Indeed, if GOA candidates are victorious in Senate races in November, Harry Reid will no longer be the Majority Leader.

And, as has been the case so often with Reid, there have been no committee hearings to debate the merits of the bill, thus the American people have no opportunity to see just how egregiously DISCLOSE violates the Constitution. In fact, the bill was introduces less than a week ago.

Please urge your Senators to protect ALL of the Bill of Rights. Remind them that your ability to protect the Second Amendment relies on the safeguards of the First Amendment.

ACTION: Contact your Senators and urge them to oppose the DISCLOSE Act. You can use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center to send your Senators a pre-written e-mail message.
 

[BBF]

Pardon the somewhat off topic remark.
 
It amazes me to no end that a Republic type Govt can be stopped from functioning by 3 different people  acting alone.
I E
 
The President via Veto which can be overruled at times........(seldom  happens)
The Speaker of the House...........a regular event
The Majority Leader in the Senate.......a regular event.

[DDZ]

We shouldn't have to contact our Senators. They know very well some of the garbage they write circumvents the Constitution. We can NOT elect criminals, and Marxists into office, and expect them to become Constitutionalists while they are in office. Government has been whittling away at the Constitution for many years now. They will eventually get it whittled down to nothing more than a blank piece of paper. They have just about completed their goal of making voters ignorant of things they should, and need to know, and transferring people into entitlement programs.