Chuck Schumer

And in my judgment, it will be much harder now for grass-roots campaigns, ordinary people to take on entrenched corporate power, on Wall Street, on health care, on issues like environmental regulation.

I wish Mr. Foley were right.

I think you are living in a different world than we all live in.

I think there is a possibility here that we can renew this debate.

I am the first United States Senator to have been elected by mail.

There is a sound constitutional argument that can be made.

We believe it was bipartisan then, it should be bipartisan now.

The Supreme Court affirming by 8-1 the disclosure provisions involved in the Citizens United case said, 'With the advent of the Internet, prompt disclosure of expenditures can provide corporations and citizens with the information needed…

A corporation is not a person, and from what I remember in law school, it was never intended to be.

I am appalled at the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United and the majority's inability to understand what most Americans do today, that we already have too much corporate influence in American politics.

Thank you, and we may consult you further as we move the legislation.

I do not believe that the Supreme Court is going to say that it is illegitimate for Congress to consider whether foreign nationals are influencing our elections.

Express advocacy expenditures will be disclosed under existing law.

There has always been a strong bipartisan consensus around the importance of disclosure laws.

I am supportive of the Supreme Court decision and look forward to the testimony of our witnesses.

The Roberts Court has turned its back on stare decisis--respecting and following the precedents set by earlier Court opinions.

But any specific instances here?

There are vulnerable voters. There are people with prying spouses or bullying employers.

California's rate of vote by mail is extraordinarily high, 44 percent.

It has increased turnout. It is cost effective. And on the central issue that colleagues have asked me about as they have looked at it, I am of the view that it reduces election fraud.

I want to thank Congresswoman Davis, who has also called me on this issue on several occasions.

The increased influence of money--big money--in our politics is robbing the average citizen of his or her voice.

The Court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation.

That is the essence of the First Amendment, that everybody should be treated alike, everybody should have the same rights.

I believe the Supreme Court took a tortuous path to expand the Citizens United case.