Byron Dorgan: “I expect we could sign up the other 98. But that has as much relationship to the Snowe-Jeffords amendment as discussing…”

“I expect we could sign up the other 98. But that has as much relationship to the Snowe-Jeffords amendment as discussing how to make an apple pie. It doesn't have any relationship at all. This is not about free speech. This is not about free speech at all. This is about disclosure, and the question propounded by the Senator from Maine with her amendment is, why are we afraid of disclosure? Why not ask people who want to interfere with and invest in Federal elections that they disclose who they are and how much money they are investing in Federal elections? That is what the question is. So then I ask those of you who are opposed to this, what are you afraid of? Why not disclose it? What is wrong with disclosure? This amendment doesn't say you can't contribute, you can't raise soft money, you can't do issue advocacy. It doesn't say that at all. It says you must disclose who you are and what you are spending. What is wrong with that?”