Brian Baird: “I feel compelled to be a part of the solution of an imminent threat to our democracy and really the future of our…”

There is indeed. If you look at what happened just last week, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives refused to pass the Disclose Act, a simple piece of legislation that would have said the large donors to these super PACs…

If people in the congressional -- in Congress say that in some ways they are morally superior and they would never abuse something or that the laws should not apply to them, well, we've got a serious problem on our hand.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing on what I consider to be one of the most important matters that may come before Congress during our careers and perhaps during our lifetimes.

I think it was willful, intentional, and part of a longer pattern that is quite troubling.