Senate advances anti-Citizens United amendment

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http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/217025-senate-advances-constitutional-amendment-on-campaign-spending

It'll probably fail in the actual vote, knowing this Senate, but at least we know the 18 who voted against advancing it just this tiny bit. They are all Republicans:

John Barrasso (R-WY)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Ted Cruz (R-TX)
Mike Enzi (R-WY)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Ron Johnson (R-WI)
Mike Lee (R-UT)
Rand Paul (R-KY)
Rob Portman (R-OH)
Jim Risch (R-ID)
Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Tim Scott (R-SC)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
John Thune (R-SD)
Pat Toomey (R-SD)

Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) did not vote.

Obviously not nearly all the Republicans who voted for this are going to vote for the final bill, though

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How come not more Republicans opposed it?

I think that they want to show some semblance of independence from the Koch brothers. Roberts needs some Koch-aine for his shaky re-election bid this year; Johnson,  Portman and  Toomey will need it in 2016.

That or they want the debate on this to dominate the Senate and distract the Democrats from things like the minimum wage.

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The text of the proposed amendment

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Citizens United decided that Section 2 would run afoul of Section 3, so that's ...interesting.

Oh, are the Koch brothers journalists now?