Katie Porter: “The legislation provides an opportunity and a choice for each candidate to decide, in their own campaign and from their…”

“The legislation provides an opportunity and a choice for each candidate to decide, in their own campaign and from their own donors, whether or not they want to use these funds for childcare. Many people will choose not to, just like many of us choose as candidates not to seek reimbursement for pizza or not to seek reimbursement for any number of allowable FEC expenses. But this bill is also going to stop the FEC from having to again and again and again--every time a parent of young children wants to run, from having to make that expensive and time-consuming appeal to the FEC and waste its resources when this simply should be a clear, straightforward policy.”