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John Doolittle: I just wanted to read a quote by Mr. Robert F. Bauer. He is a leading Democrat election lawyer and counsel for the Ohio…

On the recordJune 17, 1998
I just wanted to read a quote by Mr. Robert F. Bauer. He is a leading Democrat election lawyer and counsel for the Ohio Democratic Party in its current suit against the FEC to have a court strike down the FEC's allocation formula which deals with soft money because the allocation formula requires parties, even though they are engaging in issue advocacy, to spend 60 percent of that from hard money funds as opposed to what everybody else can do from soft money. What he said was, ``Government control over money is control over free speech.''
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John Doolittle
Republican · California

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Discussing the implications of soft money in campaign finance during a debate.

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