"I have been a member of this committee for 15 years and I never thought I would see the day when our committee would view transparency as the enemy."
"Under this logic, all campaign disclosures would be bad, not just new ones."
"Unfortunately, we will not be hearing from these groups today because Chairman Issa refused my request to invite Fred Wertheimer, the president of Democracy 21, to testify on behalf of this coalition."
"On Tuesday, a coalition of institutional investors and investor coalitions, collectively managing more than $130 billion, also wrote to express their support."
"The public wants to know more about, you know, who's giving money where."
"Many of them feel powerless. Many of them feel that government goes off and does its thing."
"I want to leave a better world than the one that I found. I want to leave a world with more opportunity."
"A stronger democracy. A stronger democracy."
"We've got to be very careful, because, I mean, I think about the elections and where we've got situations where you can drop millions of dollars in a congressional district."
"I thank our military service members, our intelligence officials, our diplomatic corps, our law enforcement officials, and our Nation's leaders from both political parties."
"The Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act are landmark open government laws that are based on a fundamental principle that Federal agencies must retain records of their official busines..."
"Mr. Chairman, although you declined to become an original cosponsor of this legislation back in March, I hope that you and I can work together on this issue in a productive way."