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We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.