Sam Farr: “I rise today to show my shock at this House's procedure in bringing up campaign finance reform. Let us recall a little…”

“I rise today to show my shock at this House's procedure in bringing up campaign finance reform. Let us recall a little bit of history. When the Democrats were in control of this House, we passed out campaign finance reform in every session. The bill was vetoed by President Bush, the bill that we passed out was filibustered by the Republican Senate, and now, when the President of the United States comes to this hall and asks the Republican leadership to give a campaign finance reform bill to him, last year and they failed, they have now scheduled it the same day that they are sending half the House to New Mexico for a funeral, they are limiting debate to 20 minutes, and they are requiring a two-thirds vote. Now, if we do not need some reform of the reform, then we are crazy. This is a sham, and the American public will know it is a sham and demand campaign finance reform in a true fashion, such as the Democratic bill or the Shays-Meehan bill, be voted on in this House with a good, solid debate.”