Jamie Raskin

We have been working on disclosure bills. But I have come to the conclusion and feel very strongly that those disclosure bills are important, and I appreciate you do not see them as unconstitutional, Mr. Abrams. But they are not going to…

Corporations do not have consciences, beliefs, feelings, thoughts, desires.

I do not think anyone takes the idea of a proposed 28th Amendment in the Constitution lightly.

I think it is because we believe that within the governmental process and the electoral process, there are right reasons for those who hold public office to make decisions, and there are wrong reasons.

Of course not. The first thing we have to remark is that the Citizens United case did not endow a single individual with any right to speak that he or she did not already have.

The thing that I want us to focus on here is that there is a free market ideology which is animating the Justices on the Court.

So what we have done is we have converted every corporate treasury in the country into a potential political slush fund.

We have built two walls to protect American democracy. The first is Jefferson's wall of separation between church and state, which protects a flourishing religious realm and a nation free from theocracy.

The other is the wall we have built brick by brick in statute over a century to separate plutocratic money from democratic politics.

I think it wise to include the word `reasonable' to ensure that legislatures do not prescribe limits that are so low that incumbents have an unfair advantage or that interfere with the freedom of the press.

After five 5-4 decisions like these, the wall between democracy and plutocracy is crumbling.

Justice Stevens has repeatedly argued, money, of course, is not speech, money is property.

I applaud you for your focus on pro-growth tax reform.

A one-size-fits-all approach is not going to work here.

I think our economy is doing better than it was certainly in the dark days of the crisis.

The work has involved a lot regarding financial reform. And, as you know, Dodd-Frank is a comprehensive statute with many provisions.

I certainly can commit to you that I will work to improve its transparency.

You are exactly dead-on correct that insurance companies have a very different set of asset liability structures than do banks.

The lessons were many. I have served in both of those capacities during the time of really great financial crisis in our country.

I hope I will be different. I do want to listen.

It is a group that comes together, consists of the leaders of various financial regulatory agencies.

I would echo your concerns, essentially this has been very difficult.