Brad Smith has a thorough takedown of the DISCLOSE Act, which is up for a cloture vote in the Senate today. He ends with:

If anyone wants to know why Congress has such a low public reputation nowadays, one need look no further than DISCLOSE. Now, a Senate that hasn’t passed a budget and is not even having hearings on such is going to use time today to debate a measure for no seeming purpose but to give the majority party an issue to demogogue this fall. We suspect the public will see through the ruse.