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, the candidate had to get on that ad at the end and say my name is michael bennet, my name is jeff merkley, my name is tom udall or dick durbin or harry reid or sheldon whitehouse and i approved that message. that's what we saw when i was a child. tonight, families all over my state, which is a swing state in this country, are going to have to endure advertisement after advertisement after advertisement that are not advertising those consumers products i described earlier, but are advocating for candidates and political ideas, and they are all going to have or many of them will have phony names. committee for a strong america or tall children or strong teeth is what they're going to see. but now because of what the supreme court ruling did, they can't even find out if they wanted to who has donated to those fake committees in many cases. now, i wanted to start out tonight, mr. president, by making clear what's not at issue with this bill. this is not a constitutional question that we're debating here tonight. there is not a question that disclosure and disclaimer, which this bill doesn't e

senator michael bennet, senator tom udall, senator al franken, senator jeanne shaheen, senator jeff merkley and myself, who worked together to redraft this legislation, trim it down, and to organize today's vote and events and tomorrow's vote, and i want to thank all of them for their enormously hard work. i want to thank the pages who've had to stay very late and the floor staff who've had to stay very late, and i appreciate the fact that we have put a burden on them and on their families and we would not be doing that if we did not consider this to be a very, very important issue, and i want to thank the entire democratic caucus for their support of this. our colleague bill nelson has had a unique experience. he has actually ridden a rocket up into space. he has been up with the nasa program as an astronaut. in some respects, i feel that i and others who were leading this were only riding a rocket of the enthusiasm of our caucus to get it done for the sake of our country. i want to thank the american people, who went out of the their way to hear -- have their voices heard in this debate.

i'd like to open with thanks to senators chuck schumer, mike bennet, al franken, jeff merkley, jeanne shaheen and tom udall for their hard work in our task force that developed this legislation, and i look forward to continuing to work with them through this debate. on thursday, majority leader reid moved to proceed to had this vital piece of legislation, and we will vote on it this evening. i thank the leader. i and many of my colleagues are looking forward to the opportunity to make the case for this important measure. but in a sense for the american public, the case has already been made. as anyone who watches television knows, our airwaves are filled with political attack ads. the organizations paying for many of these ads have patriotic and benign-sounding names with words like prosperity and freedom and future frequently to be found. these names sound harmless, but all too often, the ads are actually paid for by secret special interests. billionaires and wealthy corporations seeking secret special influence in our democracy, and in the process drowning out the voices of regular

i'd like to start with particular thanks to senators chuck schumer, michael bennet, al franken, jeff merkley, jeanne shaheen and tom udall for their hard work on developing the legislation, and i look forward to joining them as this debate goes forward. the majority leader this morning moved to proceed to this vital piece of legislation. i thank him. i and many of my colleagues are looking forward to the opportunity to make the case in this chamber for this important piece of legislation. but in a sense, that case has already been made. as anyone who watches television knows, our airwaves are filled with negative political attack ads. the organizations that pay for these negative political attack ads all have patriotic sounding names dotted with words like "prosperity," and "freedom" and "future." the names sound harmless but they're phony. all too often the ads are paid for by secret special interest interests -- billionaires and wealthy corporations seeking special secret influence in our democracy and drowning out the voices of middle-class american families. as "usa today" put it just la