The Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate in elections.
I think McCutcheon is a real turning point in our debate about money in politics.
We will get you the legislation, and you can put it through the long, laborious executive branch traps.
Delaware seems to seamlessly transfer information from the DMV--motor vehicles--to the election rolls.
I think it will work very well in elections too where you have the same idea.
Thanks to the effort by the public and private sector, most notably the Election Assistance Commission and the Pew Trusts, we now have the n...
I want to take a moment to recognize and thank one of the Senate's great public servants, the Staff Director of the Rules Committee, my dear...
the DISCLOSE Act, which I introduced with 50 colleagues last month, to end the toxic scourge of massive, undisclosed spending in elections.
It is just confounding and strikes me as perhaps self-interested that people are actually against disclosure.
We have a lot of instances in our government where an up-front cost is recouped over the next 10 years.
The bottom line is very simple. I respect my colleagues' fidelity to the First Amendment, but no amendment is absolute.