Robert Menendez actually said...

"I hope the SEC believes that this type of disclosure would be helpful for investors."

"An October 2010 Zogby poll of business leaders found that 77 percent of them believe that corporations should disclose all the direct and indirect political expenditures."

"Many large companies--Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Merck, Aetna--have already taken steps to disclose their political expenditures, and to me it illustrates the ease in which it can be done."

"Earlier this year I introduced the Shareholder Protection Act with several of my colleagues to disclose corporate spending in elections in the wake of what I believe is a misguided decision on Citizen..."