Brian Baird: “I think we would agree with Ranking Member Sensenbrenner that the House should be the people's House.”

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…

I feel compelled to be a part of the solution of an imminent threat to our democracy and really the future of our country and every American citizen.

The reality is had 20 Members of the Republican conference been killed that day... the balance of power in the House of Representatives would have changed.

If we don't find some mechanism to disincentivize non-electoral interventions... we create an incentive for mayhem.