What this bill says is very simple: Any restrictions on the rights, the free speech rights of citizens shall apply with equal force to media corporations like the New York Times, CBS, ABC, and NBC.

I would note there is unfortunately no rule in the Senate that allows a private citizen whose name is being dragged through the mud by the Majority Leader of the Senate for partisan political purposes to rise on that same point of personal…

The expenditure of money has been integral to speech.

This amendment is about power and it is about politicians silencing the citizens.

Nobody has disagreed with the litany of harms that could occur if Congress passed this bill.

The bill I have introduced would eliminate the individual contribution limits and provide immediate disclosure within 24 hours of any contribution made to a Federal candidate.

Madam President, I rise to discuss the nomination of David Barron to be a Federal court of appeals judge. I commend my friend Senator Rand Paul for his excellent remarks earlier today and his leadership against Mr. Barron's nomination. I…

I would encourage you to join that call, because the integrity of the Department and the FBI matters, and it matters beyond the political urgencies of the moment.

There have been no indictments.

So the American people have no right to know what is happening other than nothing has happened.

the stonewalling and lack of action that has occurred for over a year gives the American people a right to be even more than angry.