Lateefah Simon: “I commend my colleagues from Arizona and Wisconsin, Senator McCain and Senator Feingold, for their foresight and their…”

“I commend my colleagues from Arizona and Wisconsin, Senator McCain and Senator Feingold, for their foresight and their courage in offering this legislation. This is not an abridgement of free speech. The reality is we have restrictions. If someone in the gallery right now decides they want to make a speech here, the Presiding Officer, the Senator from Idaho, is going to say, 'No, you cannot.' That is not unconstitutional. So we have sensible restraints in our society. The other day I saw a bumper sticker here in Washington that tells something of the public mood. It was a little bumper sticker that says, 'Invest in America. Buy a Congressman.' Kind of a sad commentary on where some people think we are. I do not believe you can buy a Congressman, but I think we have a system that warps the results of this body.”