Frank Lautenberg: “yesterday we witnessed quite a sight. Not a single Republican was willing to stand up to oppose secret money and…”

“yesterday we witnessed quite a sight. Not a single Republican was willing to stand up to oppose secret money and elections. Today they will have another chance to announce their support and tell their constituents whether they would prefer that secret money buys the politicians or does it take their constituents' votes to get people in place who care about where this country is going. Republicans will have a chance to show Americans where they stand: with millions of individual voters or the few billionaires who seek to drown out the voices of our citizens by using secret money. Yesterday, I came to the floor to present the identities of two of the biggest supporters of secret money in politics, David and Charles Koch. They are joined by somebody we read about yesterday in the papers and heard on the news by the name of Sheldon Adelson, whose brain money was earned from Chinese gamblers in Macau to buy American politicians. That is some deal. The Koch brothers are putting together a secret group of wealthy friends who will spend $400 million to manipulate the upcoming election. This effort is one of the egregious examples of the flood of big, secret money into our politics, and this unaccountable money is spent with a clear goal of determining our laws and deciding our elections and the policies this country will follow in the future. The Koch brothers are set on picking their preferred politicians.…”