Robert Menendez actually said...

""Call upon" is not a far lesser standard? If I call upon you but you decide not to go ahead and listen to what I call upon you to do, what is the consequence? Nothing, right?"

"Last year, I reintroduced the Shareholder Protection Act to require public companies to disclose their political spending and to require a shareholder vote to approve it."

"I have no interest in having a corporation spend the money that in part is mine by virtue of my investments in whomever they want or whatever they want."

"I believe that the issue of the disclosure of corporate spending is a shareholder interest, as well as a societal good."