sen. klobuchar: i call to order [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] senr [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] sen. klobuchar: i call to order this hearing on s-1 the for the people act. today we are here to consider the for the people act, legislation that i m honored to lead with senator merkley and majority leader schumer, which has been cosponsored by every democratic member of this committee. i would like to thank senator blunt, our colleagues, and our witnesses for being here today. i would also like to acknowledge in addition to senator merkley two of our other members who are new to this committee and are new to the senate. senator ossoff, who along with senator warnock were elected in georgia, where we know election issues were front and center. as well as senator padilla, who has his own extensive experience with these issues from his time as calif
[indistinct chatter] sen. klobuchar: we really appreciate our second panel. i will mention who they are and swear them in and then give them their righteous and rightful introductions. so with us today is the honorable trevor potter, the former republican chair of the federal election commission who is here to testify for the bill. the honorable lee goodman, former republican chair of the federal election commission, who will be on the other side, against the bill. the third is fred wortheimer, who i believe has been working on these issues for 50 years. we will let him tell us that. we also have with us the honorable bradley smith, former republican chair of the federal election commission. and then tiffany muller, the president of end citizens united. the purpose of this second panel is to focus on the campaign finance and ethics portions of the bill, where the first panel was focused on the vote portions of the bill. so if the witnesses could stand, including our remote wi
argue is to get spending in washington under control so that we are are not up their borrowing more and more money all the time and war of our country s assets and resources can be deployed towards things that would yield a return that will put more people to work that will grow the economy and expand their standard of living in the quality of life for the people across this country. time is short. the clock is running. time is wasting. we need to get this done. in the near term except the nine bills that are sitting here in the senate that have been passed by the house that would put a lot of these services and programs that impact people that have been expressed so many times by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle they would put funding back in place for those and secondly let s get together, the president s democrats and republicans here in washington d.c. to talk about not only raising the debt limit but what we are going to do to address the underlying debt. y
in libya, militants are calling for the kidnapping of americans and attacks on europe-bound gas pipelines after the u.s. snatched an accused bombing suspect off the streets of tripoli saturday. he is facing interrogation on board a u.s. warship in the mediterranean. as of monday, he had not been read his miranda rights. on monday, libya summoned its u.s. ambassador to answer questions about the capture, a top suspect in the 1998 bombings of the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania. libya says it had no prior knowledge of the operation while the u.s. claims it provided assistance. protesters in benghazi accused the libyan government of aiding the united states. the case of the kidnapping of our brother from tripoli is just an act against libya. we will not remain silent. we will go out with peaceful protest. a case like this one up as easily in libya. maldives, the supreme court has rejected the first round of voting in a presidential election, dealing a blow to mamed nashee
litigation regulate speech in order to give adversarial parties a fair and equal thertunity to persuade decision-maker to roll in their favor, rules regulating political campaigns should have the same objective. theelections, decision-makers are voters. not judges or jurors. that does not change the imperative or the equality of opportunity. second, all elected officials would lead happier lives and be better able to perform their if theyesponsibilities did not have to spend so much time raising money. limiting campaign contributions and expenditures should recognize the distinction between money provided by their constituents and money provided by nonvoters. corporations and people living in other jurisdictions. an important recent opinion written by judge brett kavanaugh of the d c circuit, and summarily affirmed by th supreme court, upheld the constitutionality of the federal statute that prohibits foreign citizens from spending money to support or oppose candidates for fe