Sam Farr: “Well, we have colleagues here, and we hope that they will join us, listening to us, and demand that a vote be brought on…”

“Well, we have colleagues here, and we hope that they will join us, listening to us, and demand that a vote be brought on campaign finance reform so that together, in a bipartisan fashion, we can fix it in a comprehensive form. Not just plug up one little leak or two little leaks, but do the whole thing so that we limit how much money people spend on campaigns. That is the issue. We have to take the big mass, obscene expenditures out of campaigns, and we have a way of doing it. It has gotten to the President before. President Bush vetoed it, unfortunately, the Senate Republicans filibustered in the past, but now we have the ability because we do not need to have it go to the Senate and we can get the President to sign it. So all we need to do is get 218 votes here and the job is done and, hopefully, it will be done soon.”