George Miller: “I too agree with the gentleman from Michigan that this is about our priorities and this rule is about our priorities.…”

“I too agree with the gentleman from Michigan that this is about our priorities and this rule is about our priorities. One hundred and eleven Members of this Congress... wrote to the Speaker of the House and asked that we have campaign finance reform in the first 100 days of this session of Congress. We are awaiting an answer from the Speaker on that issue. The silence is deafening. At the same time, we see the minority leader in the Senate... has made campaign finance reform the top issue in their agenda... President Clinton has called for action by July 4. Yet we hear nothing from the Republican leadership about campaign finance reform. Again, the silence is not only deafening, it is paralyzing us and an ability to deal with a system that the American public has come to disrespect, to understand is corrosive, to understand is corrupting, and yet we see nothing from the Republican side of the aisle to deal with campaign finance reform.”