But what is so wrong with disclosing the people that give these kinds of contributions?

Justice Kennedy...notes that as long as you have adequate disclosure, you need worry much less about independent expenditures.

this bill in particular has a lot of problems... it brings up what we call 'junk disclosure'

excessive disclosure discourages honest, good political participation, and we need to be careful about that

Do you have concerns that once--you know, we do not know where this money is coming from because it is not disclosed, that you could have foreign money come in when we do not know what the money is and----

I just think this money in these extreme forms from the outside is not going to foster that at all.

I think we need to recognize, first, the Roberts Court has not said that rules like 'this' are constitutional.

It is important to the people of America. It is important to our processes. It is important to who we are as a country.

when you have 100-year-old women who have to wait in line for hours, then we have a problem

I am very troubled by the recent Supreme Court decision, the McCutcheon decision, extending the damage Citizens United caused in my mind.

we had a tremendous hearing last week on campaign finance and what that means to our democracy

If we do not get the data out, we are just putting our heads in the sand and hiding.

So, a lot of times, it might involve mental illness when people do it.

I think it was with the Joint Economic Committee, about the Census and some of the political things that surround it.

I have introduced a bill with Senator Tester, the Same Day Registration Act, which would try to make the voting process easier by allowing people to register on the same day as they cast their ballot.

I want to thank Chairman Schumer for calling attention to this very important issue and for inviting me to chair this hearing.

I think it is important to set the record straight in the sense that, you know, Mr. Potter talked about Watergate and it led to a law that changed the way presidential campaigns were funded.

Congratulations on your incredible service to this committee, and we wish you well in your new position.