In a 219-206 vote yesterday, the House passed a campaign finance measure known as the DISCLOSE Act in answer to the Supreme Court’s January Citizens United decision.  The bill, according to Politico, would “require corporations, labor unions, trade associations, and advocacy groups to publicly declare their role in TV ads or mass mailings during the closing months of a political campaign, including where the money is coming from to pay for such activities.  Foreign-controlled corporations and big-government contractors would also be barred from paying for such political activities.”  Thirty-six Democrats bucked their leadership to vote against the bill, and just two Republicans supported it.

Among the bill’s supporters was Hank Johnson, Cynthia McKinney’s successor from Atlanta who worried in a recent congressional hearing that an overabundance of Navy servicemen stationed on Guam would cause the island to “tip over and capsize.”