President Obama has called this an 'urgent humanitarian situation,' and I agree.
What we could do, if we wanted to solve the problem, is have the House pass the legislation that we passed.
It would be a lot more gratifying if we actually get the bill through.
Every day the House fails to act is another day that families are torn apart and our economy lags.
I want to thank Chairman Leahy of the Senate Judiciary Committee for authorizing this hearing to take place in Rhode Island and for his supp...
I believe that, left unanswered, these rulings will continue to erode fundamental aspects of our democratic process.
Eighty percent oppose Citizens United and unlimited spending; 74 percent of voters in Colorado and Montana voted to call for this amendment.
If you asked the vast majority of North Carolinians did they like the early vote period, did they like the right to exercise their constitut...
The common sense of the American people tells us that corporations are not people.
Unfortunately, Senate Republicans have repeatedly filibustered that legislation, known as the DISCLOSE Act.
If we do nothing now, pretty soon the people will no longer govern the corporations; the corporations will govern the people.
I fear that these Supreme Court decisions have reversed that course.
I would urge everybody to read the filings of the State of Montana in the Bullock case because what the State described was a history of mas...
The Supreme Court has opened the floodgates to billionaires who are pouring vast amounts of unfettered and undisclosed dollars into politica...
This is no assault on the First Amendment because Citizens United did not increase the rights of a single citizen to express his or her view...
The ability of all Americans--not just wealthy ones--to express their views and have their voices heard in the political process is vital to...
I have long been wary of attempts to change the Constitution because I have seen so many hundreds of proposals that I have opposed used like...
The story of our Constitution has been one of progressive inclusion, as I read it.
