Sam Farr: “It may speak to how bad it has gotten in Washington. That is that the interests that you just talked about and others…”

“It may speak to how bad it has gotten in Washington. That is that the interests that you just talked about and others really would not want a campaign reform bill. You can see them out lobbying against it. What it would do, it would limit the amount of money that they could give any one candidate. It would require that if they put out bulletins independent of the candidate, that they would have to disclose those as a campaign piece. If they put out your voting record and said your voting record is good because it supports us or it is bad because it opposes us, that at campaign time could be considered a campaign piece, and they would have to be registered as giving an in-kind contribution to the candidate that it benefited. They do not like that. They do not want that kind of disclosure. So this campaign reform really hits, the Democratic version hits at the very concerns that some of the biggest special interests and most controversial special interests in Washington have. On the other hand, the leadership bill comes to the floor with no limits. They could buy and sell and own campaign elections throughout America.”