and mccutcheon vs. fec, we anticipate that mccutcheon will help address the and fans to some degree, but it did not strike prohibitions and limitations on direct candidates. what was struck was a so-called biennial limit prevents citizens from giving to more than a few handfuls of candid it's and party committees, thus the impact, more candid it's, including challenges will have access to the additional financial support. hopefully it will no longer be the province of a select few. similarly the upstart challenge of a candid it's natural ally, the political party, will no longer have to compete with each other to the degree cost by mccain-feingold, but this is not enough to fix our system. mccain-feingold must be revisited. thank you for the opportunity to present these views. >> thank you. mr. norman ornstein. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman, and it is really a pleasure to be here to talk about this issue. i want to miss part by commending senator ted cruz for his full- skirted support of disclosure

and then to mccutcheon. i want to make a couple broad points. particularly about mccutcheon. despite some of the other focal points, what has alarmed me the most about the mccutcheon decision was justice roberts basically now taking corruption out of the equation. the appearance of corruption entirely out of the equation. defining corruption in the narrowest way as a quid pro quo that would only be an "american hustle" variety, videotape exchange. it is so far from the real world. with mccutcheon, where elected officials can solicit large contributions, something that we would try to restrain deeply in mccain-feingold, it takes me back to an era i remember well where we had presidents clubs and speakers clubs and -- an era i remember well. where we had presidents clubs and speakers clubs and we had a menu of access, get $10,000 for a one-on-one with the speaker. this is a trade of access for money and it leads down a dangerous path that becomes even more dangerous when we do not have disclosure of who is involved with a lot of contributions. and frankly the notion that mccutc

i want to take comments particularly about mccutcheon. what alarmed me the most about the mccutcheon decision was justice robert taking corruption out of theicati equation and deg corruption in the narrowist. as quid pro quo that would only be applicable in a case like the hustle variety when you have video tape and return for a favor in exchange of money. that is so far away from the real world. in particular now where elected officials can recruit big companies. this takes me back to an era where we had president's clubs and speakers club with a mean--w menu of access. $25,000 was a one-on-one with a speaker. this is a trade of access of money and leads down a dangerous path that becomes more dangerous when we don't have disclosure of who is involved. the notion that mccutcheon would enhance disclosure was blown out of the water. and what we have seen happening after high price lawyers, some in this room, are working feverishly to make sure the contributions get channeled through committees so we don't have effective disclosure. let me

and then to mccutcheon. i want to make a couple broad points. particularly about mccutcheon. despite some of the other focal points, what has alarmed me the most about the mccutcheon decision was justice roberts basically now taking corruption out of the equation. the appearance of corruption entirely out of the equation. defining corruption in the narrowest way as a quick joke quo that would only be "n "american hustle variety, videotape exchange. it is so far from the real world. with mccutcheon, where elected solicit large contributions, something that we would try to restrain deeply in mccain-feingold, it takes me back to an era ireland were well where we had presidents clubs and speakers clubs and -- an era i remember well. clubswe had presidents and speakers clubs and we had a menu of access, get $10,000 for a one-on-one with the speaker. leads down aney dangerous path that becomes even more dangerous when we do not have disclosure of who is involved with a lot of contributions. and frankly the notion that mccutcheon will enhance disclosure was blown out of the water by

and, of course, the mccutcheon case was decided after i'd written that, the chapter.hink i've included the word "reasonable" in my proposed amendment because i think that the actual limits that were imposed at the time of the buckley decision may well have been designed to protect incumbents. and i don't think justice white discussed that possibility l in his dissent. but i think if the limits are placed too low, it could be a valid argument that they are favoring incumbents. but that's why i said that they should be, there should be the reasonableness requirement. and, which i think would solve the problem because i do think that if congress focused on reasonableness, i don't think there's any danger that my former colleagues would actually conclude that any limit whatsoever is unreasonable after an amendment was adopted to correct the heart of the problem. >> host: now, the objection, of course, is that reasonableness is not self-defining, and judges would have to decide what was reasonable. someone from "the new york times" recently asked you a good question, he sa

tell us more about your criticisms of the mccutcheon case. >> guest: that's exactly true in the mccutcheoncase was decided after i had written that chapter. i have included the word reasonable in my proposed amendment because i think that the actual limits that were imposed at the time of the buckley decision may well have been designed to protect them from those. i don't think justice white discuss that possibility in his dissent. i think if the limits are placed too low it could be a valid argument that they are favoring incumbents but that is why i said there should be a reasonable requirement. that i think would solve the problem. i do think if congress focused on reasonable limits and i don't think there's any danger that my former colleagues would actually conclude that any is unreasonable after an amendment was adopted to correct the heart of the problem. >> guess. >> host: the objection is reasonable reasonableness is not self defining. with the reasonableness requirement of our structures to write and edit torreo on behalf of a candidate and what was your response to that? >> gues

sunshine ordinance section 67.10(d) to discuss anticipated litigation as defendant in light of mccutcheon v. federal election commission, no. 12-536 >> public comment? >> we need a motion for go into closed session? >> the public comment on the motion? >> is there a motion to move into closed session? >> so moved. >> second. >> public comment on the closed session? >> i think that it absolutely makes sense for you to hold the close session, i just wanted to comment on what i understand as the implications of it and i hope that you will consider what legislation that you might bring before the board of supervisors to amend it in relation to the aggregate contribution limits that you might have options, and analyze what those options might be, and both in the near term and in the other implications. and long term and that you would not decide in closed session to pursue any of those tonight but that will bring those back to the commission before further discussion before doing anything, legislatively, and considering the timing and the implication on elections that are already in progress w

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we know we can do it constitutionally. 8-1 majorities in both mccutcheon and citizens united invited us to do this. and i think we should be able to fands find a bipartisan stliewtn this subject because -- solution to this subject because it will benefit this whole country and i think it will be of great benefit to the institution of democracy itself. this is not what the framers envisioned. and we have it within our power to do something about it and to improve the situation and to improve the flow of information, including the source of that information, to the people of america. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. mr. cardin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: madam president, take this time on the floor, as the chair of the u.s. helsinki commission, the helsinki commission is the operating arm of the united states participation in the organization for security and cooperation in europe, the osce. it's been in the press recently because of the circumstances in ukraine, whams geeing talk -- which is what i'm going to talk about

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in mccutcheon, this recently decided cairks the supremdecidet has made it easier for the wealthier and special interests they represent to hedge their et abouts by diversifying their political portfolio. it has more in common sadly with wall street investment strategies than with the free speech rights envisioned by the founders at the constitutional convention. frankly, i think the founders would not recognize our political system today, and the increasingly harsh influence of big-money donors in our overall national political scene. together with the citizens units decision five years ago, we see the truly dangerous imloikses of the decisions rendered. one of the boldest decisions i've ever seen, citizens united was another 5-4 decision and killed off nearly half of that bipartisan compromise bill from 2002 of mccain-feingold by allowinallowing corporations anr special interests to anonymously fund campaign ads in the months before an election. in doing so, as justice stevens tbloat a dissent, ytion the court relied largely on individual dissenting opinions blazing through court prec

but through the citizens united and mccutcheon cases which allows for basically unlimited campaign donations by rich people and corporations the supreme court has paved the way for a new wave of politicians to be even more importantly in the pockets of the one percent there is now even them a chance for a newly elected congressperson to represent the people she's supposed to be the implications of having no limits on campaign contributions is so terrifying that for mine to actually just calls for a constitutional convention to limit money in politics and some states have pledged to follow suit and that actually has some real promise pertains more than a lot of other things on the table at the moment but with the way things are we are absolutely primed to have a whole slew of new congressmen who are backed by wealthy corporations and individuals under president of levels so the current devil we do know this just might be better than the devil we have yet to vote for tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident. star wars. to the finish line of the current era on. w

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in the green election will become even more extreme as the number of participants funding after mccutcheonntinues to fall and i think this is a so overwhelming for people who are just completely disillusioned with their complete corruption as they say on capitol hill let's talk about solutions your proposed solution of the problem that you started your own crowdsource super pac and get into the month called the made a pac already have raised over half a million dollars and five days incredible what's the goal of the super pac and how will restore true representative democracy. but the idea is that we could put together enough resources to win a change in congress by two thousand and sixteen to get a congress who is committed to fundamental reform and if we could pull those. resources together we can begin to have the impact on this system that's necessary the kind of moonshot that's necessary to get this radical change through in such a short period of time but to get there we wanted to start these incremental steps so the first step is to raise money for twenty fourteen so we can compete

and they've barely understand the real issues on the cuts and if they really understood how bad mccutcheon was it would be eighty to ninety ninety percent disapproval of that so right now you have a supreme court that doesn't seem to doesn't seem to mind that the american public regards them as something akin to dick cheney. in a way in the in the two minutes or so we have left your pap haven't we as a consequence of the court taking on more and more power and being more and more assertive and refusing to acknowledge or or conform to the are the standards for federal court judges that every other federal court judge has to have only become a constitutional monarchy instead of a democracy in these five guys of the monarch's much much written about that i mean when you have when you have riders legal riders that just have done of the following or when they start calling this a legal monarchy which is what it has become then the court need to start asking questions the last time those kinds of words were used were back in the thirty's and of course f.d.r. did something about it f.d.r. said yo

my concern here, going back to the mccutcheon decision, my concern is that i think five justices in the court are in a position where they are saying congress, you can't do more. we have said disclosure is fine. internet disclosure is great. but unless it is bribery it's ok. so this intermediate area that the chairman talks about, it's unseemly, diminishes confidence in government, that used to be covered by quote, the appearance of corruption. the notion that congress could legislate as it did with soft money, not because there was proof of quid pro quo bribe riff people going to jail, but because of the unseemliness of six and seven figure contributions often solicited in terms of, as mr. ornstein says, join the chairman's club, have a breakfast meeting with the chairman of the x, y, z, committee. congress said you can't do that because it's bad for the institution and bad for public confidence in congress. and what i worry about is that five justices on the court are saying, too bad. you can't fix that. you can't regulate that. if it's not actual outright bribery, congress can't prev