we will continue to dedicate, fund, and train a portion of the National Guard for homeland defense and defense support of civil authorities.

Disclosure laws provide valuable information to voters.

If you do not require disclosure of the super PACs, there will be people who will want to give undisclosed.

The inability of good people in either party to come forward is going to stop and the disrespect of our institutions... will grow.

Disclosure does no good. In fact, it is deceptive.

Get rid of the limits on contributions and super PACs will go away.

It is time for Congress to take back control.

It has ensured that the flood of corporate money flowing from undisclosed and unaccountable sources, such as Citizens United, would continue.

The main problem is that action has shifted from PACs and 527 organizations, which have to disclose all of their contributors, to new 501(c)(4) and other types of 501(c) organizations which require no public disclosure of contributors.

I would be happy to say on the floor that that is the legislative intent.

Now, it takes eight seconds. Of course, if you say it very slowly, you could stretch it out to 20 seconds if you should want to.

The downpour of unaccountable spending is wrong. It undermines our political process.

I think that what has happened after Citizens United is corroding the very essence of our democracy.

Senator Tester's legislation is common sense, bipartisan, and I hope we can all agree on it and do it.

Their opinion was that they were 'not yet persuaded' that these positions need to remain Senate confirmable.

I do truly look forward to working with you.

I look forward to working with our new Ranking Member, Senator Alexander.

We are doing this--rather than eliminating Senate consideration in its entirety--in order to ensure that these politically-balanced boards remain bipartisan.