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Washington (CNSNews.com) – In what the White House calls a push for transparency, a pending executive order would require companies doing business with the federal government to disclose political contributions to independent groups, but would not place the same requirement on public employee unions or federal grant recipients that typically donate to Democrats. Entitled the “Disclosure of Political Spending By Government Contractors,” the order would implement parts of the DISCLOSE Act, which failed to get through Congress last year. The legislation sought to restrict campaign speech after the landmark Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission U.S. Supreme Court ruling that...

...We might generously assume the 62 freshman legislators were so green when they took office they didn’t know the difference between a paid political advertisement and a proffer of proof, notwithstanding 15 are lawyers. But can they have reached the second half of the 2nd session of the 111th Congress and still think these two are the same? Have they ignored ongoing correspondence from constituents documenting members of the Democratic Party, including their Speaker, who signed these Certifications of Nomination, refuse to identify documents that were the basis for their determination Mr. Obama is a natural born citizen? Even in...