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John Doolittle: “Your remedy is not to bridge the freedom of speech but is to raise the limits on hard dollars so we do not have all this…”

On the recordSeptember 14, 1999
Your remedy is not to bridge the freedom of speech but is to raise the limits on hard dollars so we do not have all this pressure for soft money issue ads.
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John Doolittle
Republican · California

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Discussing campaign finance reform and the impact of soft money on free speech.

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