The Fair Elections Now Act is voluntary and would provide qualified House candidates grants, matching funds, and voucher...
I do not understand that contradiction.
I hate raising money for campaigns. The only two people I know who enjoyed it both went to prison.
I do not understand why putting restrictions on the other side makes much sense.
The last thing the American people need is for this body to heap greater debt on the backs of our progeny for the sakes ...
I can't imagine anybody likes doing that. I can't imagine anybody wants to push this.
I don't see how we lose on that one.
When I used the term 'corrosive,' what I meant by that was the entire approach ends up being corrosive.
I think it gets more attention to the culture of your campaigns which we have kind of lost here in this arms race.
I am certain that many candidates would not be able to run for office without the public financing option.
I would like to see us implement a system very similar to what we are talking about in Maine.
If we had full public financing here, a voluntary system...would we be struggling this week to figure out how to put tog...
Our bill, you are right, does not address 527s.
But certainly the most important thing about this thinking is the flexibility...
I think that is an important thing to know for our colleagues who represent very low-income communities.
I think that is the beauty of a hearing.
As the Speaker of the House, I am engaged in recruiting candidates to run for the legislature.
More importantly, after I qualified for clean elections, I could spend the majority of my time talking to my constituent...
