Amy Klobuchar

Giving people the tools that they want to use, not necessarily saying, 'Here, you have to take this application...'

Absent evidence that a carrier is hoarding spectrum or otherwise seeking spectrum for a purpose other than to serve its customers, it is at best premature to assume that a carrier's desire to purchase additional spectrum is itself…

And by 'notified,' to make clear--this was Senator Feinstein's question--it was done publicly.

We can no longer do nothing, that we have to take action.

Okay. And then I just want to go back quickly to something that was raised at the beginning...

Okay. Well, that is good timing.

And by broad adoption, you mean other retail outlets using the same card?

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

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

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

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

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

The Supreme Court has repeatedly said that it is constitutional to have limits on contributions.

Which have been allowed as reasonable limits in the past.

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

I would like to thank all of our witnesses today for their important testimony this morning.

It can be very--okay.

Anything that the Federal Government can do to support that--and that means something as simple as providing a clearinghouse with a menu of options for different States, because States do look to one another in trying to figure out what…

It creates incentives for States, because they want to compete with each other.

It was not some intentional thing, both on the election administrator side and on the felon side.

That seems like a real problem.

So, this would be something, and this would be to supplement what we are getting from the Election Administration and Voting Survey?

I know you are going to do great out there.

I think the combination of the EAC survey, the Census data, combined with organizations like Pew doing these performance index measures, is the way to go.