George Miller: “as the ongoing Senate hearings and news reports have revealed, both parties are circumventing our campaign finance laws…”

“as the ongoing Senate hearings and news reports have revealed, both parties are circumventing our campaign finance laws to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in soft money. The time has come to ban soft money. Over 2 years ago the Speaker and President Clinton shook hands on campaign finance reform, but since that time nothing has been done. How many more pressing issues will Congress fail to address because of the insidious influence of money and politics? As we all know, delay means death for campaign finance reform. Recently 25 Members and I wrote to the Speaker asking for a floor scheduled vote on banning soft money in the 1998 election cycle. If no such schedule is designated before we leave this week, Mr. Speaker, all Members should be prepared to arrive at work early and stay late, because regular order is intolerable while campaign finance reform remains absent from our calendar.”