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The ability to be heard is different than the ability to drown out every other point of view using modern technology simply because you have a lot more money than somebody else who has an equally valid view.
I want to thank my colleagues for participating and joining us in this hearing, sharing their thoughts and comments on this important topic.
It may be one of the reasons that our collective approval rating around here is below al Qaeda.
He believes that members of Congress should have to wear jackets like NASCAR drivers with their sponsors on the jacket.
I do not think there is much question, and polls support this, that this whole money and politics is part of what is turning off the American people to the process.
But if you have full disclosure, the citizens can make that decision.
I think we are insulting the Byzantines, frankly, by likening this to their conduct.
I am delighted that there will be a vote on Senator Udall's constitutional amendment.
I agree very much with Justice Hugo Black who famously said, with regard to the First Amendment, the words Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech means exactly what it says.
We have to bring some balance to our political system. If people lose faith in this system, which they are rapidly doing, in large part, because they feel, correctly, that people with a lot of money have far more say in the actual…
Our democratic process is broken and corrupt right now because politicians in both parties hold onto incumbency.
And we cannot wait for a solution that may not be available to us in the political or public policy sphere, or in the political sphere, and so other alternatives have to be developed on a fairly urgent basis.
Well, we have to do something. I mean, the alarm bells are ringing.
When the Supreme Court, or any of my colleagues, say that the Koch Brothers' First Amendment rights are being deprived, that they are not being heard, it defies common sense, it defies logic.
Let us allow those who want to contribute and engage in our political system to give money where they want as long as they follow the law.
But it is a question that is important because if it does not get fixed then we do not get the certification, right?