This is not a serious attempt at getting money out of politics.

Unlimited taxpayer dollars going to political campaigns is certainly not what I think my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want out of this.

I request a roll call vote, please.

I appreciate my colleague from California, Mrs. Davis' concerns about money and politics.

Why in the world, then, would anybody who helped to write this bill say that that is the model that we should use to infuse billions of dollars into the coffers of campaigns of all of us sitting around this table?

That is why this is one of the most egregious provisions that we have in this bill.

Now we are going to ask the taxpayers to fund the campaigns of people who probably disagree with--that they are going to fund elections of people they possibly disagree with.

the more we found out that more people in this Nation today distrust politicians and government officials in Washington, D.C., than ever before in the history in this country.

This Nation was established to get government closest to the people, not further away from it, and this is exactly what this horror book is doing to the American people.

this government subsidy for politicians is the most unbelievable thing that I think I have encountered since I have been here in Congress.

Are the taxpayers in this country clamoring to get dark money out of politics, saying replace it--or not even replace it, add to it.