I am in favor of full disclosure, but there is nothing in the Constitution about full disclosure.

The American people deserve to know where this money is coming from.

He has been a great member of this Committee.

These hearings were suggested by Senator Udall, who has been a true leader on this subject.

The American public, rightly so, looks on in disgust.

I have been sitting at the other end of Senator Leahy's Judiciary Committee for a long time.

The improvement in Senate-related campaign finance disclosure that would result from the passage of S. 219 is long overdue.

Senate candidates, however, willfully remain stuck in the Dark Ages, filing their disclosure reports on paper.

I will be offering an amendment on the floor in a while to implement what the administration called for, closing some of these tax benefits to the oil industry.

Obviously, we dramatically disagree with your interpretation of your budget, but we will leave it at that.

I think this budget, as much as I don't like a lot of it, does make the kind of investments that we need to be competitive.

I think you guys have done--with a horrible economic situation over the past couple of years--have done a pretty good job.

a plan beats no plan.

My plan does not reduce. It just slows the rate of growth. These benefits continue increasing year after year after year throughout the century.

What we should be doing is taking the newfound backbone and accelerating and strengthening them.

This, to me, is a success story. And we ought to, as a Congress, be focusing on the facts and make it work better.

But tax increases affect economic vitality and affect behavior and growth.

Which is the long-term trajectory.