I salute your efforts on this bill. I think disclosure and disclaimers are a good idea.

I truly can see Citizens United being overturned.

It will have a big impact on campaigns. It will have a big impact on Congress.

I appreciate Senator Durbin's efforts to reinvigorate what is left of our public financing system.

Our Republican colleagues often complain about activist Federal judges. But in this case, this Supreme Court went out of its way to unleash the power of corporations in our politics.

I have been working for it ever since.

we have to have public financing of elections if we are going to give citizens their opportunity to have a voice.

Make no mistake about it. The Supreme Court's ruling also clears the way for the domestic subsidiaries... to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections.

The Citizens United decision makes it clear he is an umpire on steroids because what they have done is overturn 100 years of precedent.

What the Republican leader failed to mention is, when this President came to the White House, he inherited the worst economic mess in the history of this country since the Great Depression. The President turned to both parties--Democrats…

When you start to leave this evening to go home and you drive by the gate out here and you see, in the dark, men and women in uniform risking their lives for us and for the visitors to the Capitol, remember this vote. This vote cuts funds…

I would like to congratulate my colleague on the occasion of his 10,000th vote in the Senate. He has been a colleague of mine now for the 13 years I have served in the Senate, and I have enjoyed working with him. Occasionally, we have been…

The proposal they made was to go after what they called toxic assets, and so they created a program called the Toxic Assets Relief Program-- TARP. They asked for some $80 billion--an enormous sum of money--in order to go to financial…

I do have to express my regret that my colleague is leaving us and thank him for his many years of fine service to the people of his State, in the House and the Senate.

What did we learn yesterday in Massachusetts? I guess many things about the feeling of the American people. When you take a look at the polls, it is interesting. It is not as if it is a very partisan feeling among most Americans. They are…

I hope that as each of you take your oath... you will bear in mind the importance of the courtrooms.

the jury box stands more and more starkly as an institution of American government that is beyond their reach.

Dick Durbin, he came out of one of those meetings this morning. And he said we all just have to catch our breath. Let's just hold on.

Justice Coleman has devoted her legal career to public service.

I recommended these names to President Obama, and we are fortunate that such outstanding individuals are willing to serve on the Federal bench.

I hope my Senate colleagues will consider and confirm Justice Coleman and Gary Feinerman as quickly as possible.

powerful forces that are at work in this country to deprecate the value of the judicial forum and its role in the American system of government.

I would like, if I could, to enter into the record the Congressional Record for December 23, 2009.

Thank you, Senator Franken.

We still have a long way to go.