Express advocacy expenditures will be disclosed under existing law.

I do have some reservations about moving towards voting by mail.

Not once has a Democratic candidate or a Republican candidate said that they lost their election by voter fraud using vote by mail.

I think both of my colleagues know that Senator Grassley and I, for example, have spent a full decade trying to eliminate secret holds here in the United States Senate.

Overwhelmingly this is a bipartisan approach.

It would be a pretty fragile marriage.

there is no truer champion of reform than Senator Wyden.

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.

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

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

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

the power of corporate spending is much reduced.

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

But any specific instances here?

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

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

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.

I want to thank my colleagues for participating. I want to thank our witnesses for their excellent help, guidance, and diversity on this issue.

the likelihood, yes.

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Mr. President, it was only a little over a year ago, with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, that we faced a financial crisis the likes of which few have seen in our lifetime. We were truly standing on the edge and staring into the abyss…

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

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

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.

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