Brian Baird: “It is time for Congress to act on them before they are needed, not after.”

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

It defies common sense to believe that he somehow segregates the knowledge he gets in one committee hearing or a meeting with the secretary of the treasury.

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…

It is not fair to say, or accurate to say that the Framers only accepted elections, direct elections as valid means of representation.