Matt Salmon: “when I came here 3 years ago, I came, I think, full of fire in the belly ready to make some major changes in this place.…”

“when I came here 3 years ago, I came, I think, full of fire in the belly ready to make some major changes in this place. I, too, am very disappointed tonight. There are a lot of reformers on both sides. The gentleman that just spoke is a true hero of mine, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel). I think he is a great guy and somebody that stands for the right thing time and time again. Hopefully, he sees there are some of us on the other side that try to do the same thing. We get a little tired of the games between the leadership on both sides. Frankly, we stand here tonight, and I am ashamed, I really am ashamed to see how this is coming up tonight, that it is in the same manner as that of the leadership who ran the House for 40 years under the Democrats. It is wrong. It is wrong when they did it, and it is wrong if we do it, and I don't think this is a service to the American people. Let me say something. We are here to talk about a very sensitive issue, special interest influence on Washington. I come from a State that passed the most comprehensive campaign finance reform in the Nation. You can only give $300 to a candidate in the State of Arizona, yet scandals still persist, problems still occur, because people do break the law. Let us stop telling lies to the American people. Everybody knows that the Republicans want to preserve the ability for big corporations to give bucks on the side through soft money to the ones in charge.”