Chuck Schumer

Corporate spending in elections undermines the very foundation of our democracy.

All Americans can know they are free to speak their minds on issues of public concern without having to get the permission of the Government.

Overwhelmingly this is a bipartisan approach.

Well, I know on that fateful week, and Chris was there, the worry was these people with short-term paper would just withdraw it from all these large institutions...

Yes, and you could clearly say one large institution doing risky things poses a greater systemic risk than one small institution doing----

Do you think the securitization is also related to the Fannie and Freddie guarantees?

We must get it right, and this is a goal that I know we both share.

I remain committed to considering any concept that may help us achieve our overarching goal.

I am quite disturbed by the manner in which the Administration has gone about introducing their latest proposals.

So if we didn't guarantee as many mortgages, there would be less securitization.

This is too important, it is too complex to be subject to the vagaries of political litmus testing.

Just because an institution is small doesn't mean it is not risky.

I remain convinced that the steps the government took to save the financial system were absolutely necessary.

2008 Campaign Finance Data

If this ruling is left unchallenged, if Congress fails to act, our country will be faced with big, moneyed interests spending, or threatening to spend, millions on ads against those who dare to stand up to them.

The changes that are likely to result from the Citizens United case have the potential to be disastrous to the health of our democracy.

I believe that the Supreme Court's opinion in Citizens United is corrosive to our democracy.

The Federal Taxpayer-Right-To-Know Act, a bill introduced by Senator Schumer and enacted in 1999

A bill introduced by Senator Schumer and enacted in 1999 to provide citizens with detailed information about how their taxes are spent.

Will you work with me to implement the suggestion that either administratively or through legislation that we implement this plan?

But he was on the list.

Do you think it would be tighter than the present process?

So, again, I just want to get--why wouldn't it be better to do it the way I am suggesting?

That is my point, isn't it?

And you do not have access to the TIDE database, right?