Asa Hutchinson: “I thank the gentleman and I want to express my appreciation to the gentleman for his leadership to the freshman class…”

“I thank the gentleman and I want to express my appreciation to the gentleman for his leadership to the freshman class, as president of our class, but also on the issue that the gentleman has been talking about, which is paycheck protection. The gentleman has devoted an enormous amount of energy and time to this issue and I congratulate him for that. As the gentleman indicated, there is going to be an opportunity to vote on paycheck protection as well as other campaign reform amendments and ideas on the floor, starting, hopefully, tomorrow. And as the gentleman indicated, the Committee on Rules is preparing for that event, and I am delighted that the base bill that will be considered, whenever we debate campaign finance reform, will be the bipartisan Campaign Integrity Act, which again is called 'the freshman bill'. This bill is fairly limited in scope as to all that it does, but it accomplishes very significant and substantial reform. And if the gentleman will continue to yield for a few moments, I would like to be able to talk about this particular bill that will be considered on the House floor.”