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Asa Hutchinson: if I understand the point the gentleman is making, if you have an incumbent, a United States Congressman who has $1…

On the recordSeptember 13, 1999
if I understand the point the gentleman is making, if you have an incumbent, a United States Congressman who has $1 million in his war chest, and he is very, very difficult to compete with financially and you have a challenger, he can raise money individually, but that the party can put more money into his campaign to make that race more competitive. Is that what you see in this bill?
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Asa Hutchinson
Arkansas

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Discussing campaign finance and competitiveness in elections.

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