On the recordJune 19, 1998
Let me say that my amendment is pretty clear, I think. What the gentleman was describing was exactly what Bill Clinton and Al Gore did in this last election. Now, Shays-Meehan wants to make that illegal. I do not want to make that illegal, although I will render it unnecessary because we will wipe away this monstrous regulation in present law that the big government, is that okay to say, or the pro-government reformers gave us 25 years ago, and instead we will just remove the limits and then the contributor can give to the candidate. That is the natural flow of money. We will not have to have these diversions and circumventions, soft money, issue advocacy, et cetera. It can just go right to the candidate. I do not outlaw any of that, because we have a first amendment which protects speech.
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