Rep. Van Hollen tells Michelle Malkin: Submit an amendment

{mosads}The popular commentator, not known for walking away from an argument, ignored Van Hollen, hammering Whitehouse most of the morning over his campaign finance legislation, the Disclose Act.

What about all those Dem-friendly exemptions? RT @SenWhitehouse DISCLOSE will make the unlimited spending at least public. #capafDISCLOSE

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) July 16, 2012

No truth to that. All groups, including unions, are treated alike in the bill. Read the bill. #capafDISCLOSE

— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) July 16, 2012

The Senate is slated to vote to end debate on the new Disclose Act on Monday, which would require corporations, unions and other political spenders to report campaign expenditures above $10,000.

Many Democrats took to Twitter to voice their support for the bill and questioned their Republican colleagues’ commitment to transparency.

RT if you support our effort to make sure voters know who’s spending millions of dollars to influence elections #DISCLOSEvote

— Senator Kay Hagan (@SenatorHagan) July 14, 2012

GOP members of Congress stayed mostly quiet on the vote, which is expected to fall largely along party lines. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), one Republican that the Democrats had hoped would sign on to the bill, has objected, similarly to Malkin, to favorable treatment for pro-Democratic unions.

Other right-leaning organizations and media figures made no secret of their opposition to the legislation.

On Monday the US Senate will take up the DISCLOSE Act, in an attempt to curtail our 1st Amendment rights inv.lv/MtrWTU

— NRA (@NRA) July 14, 2012