At a talk at UCLA last month, I said that America's growing anti-corruption movement needs to think big, not puny. That we need a fundamental change in the way America funds its campaigns, and that it will take a cross-partisan grassroots movement of outsiders to get the insiders in D.C. to embrace that change.

To kickstart that grassroots movement, I said, Congress needs a chance to innovate. This should be a time when different ideas are encouraged and tested. Which ideas will spark the energy of citizens across the country? Which can speak to citizens from across the political spectrum?