Sam Farr: “The campaign of the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Capps) is very well-known in this country. And what she is saying…”

“The campaign of the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Capps) is very well-known in this country. And what she is saying is her campaign was taken over by outside influences, both her campaign and her opponent's, and these outside influences were not accountable to anybody in their district because they did not have to disclose who they were and where the money came from. Basically, what is happening here is the American public knows there is a campaign season, there is a beginning and there is an end and they know what goes on in between. There ought to be something we know who is saying it. They could call somebody a rotten SOB. They could call somebody good. They could call somebody evil. They could say all kinds of things about them. But as long as they do not have to say vote for or against them but they say everything but that, they can destroy them. And they as a consumer, as a voting person, they have no idea who has paid for all that. They do not even know who it is because they usually make up fake titles about what they are. They are always good citizens for something, but then all they do is talk about evil. So the campaign of the gentlewoman showed to America something that we in Congress were not even aware was going to happen, and that is that it is totally out of control, that we are going to have messages all over this country by people that are totally unaccountable. If we pass this amendment, it will make it worse.”