Sam Farr: “It is very interesting to watch what is going on here. The gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) talked, a Republican…”

“It is very interesting to watch what is going on here. The gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) talked, a Republican from California, a colleague of mine, also served in the California State legislature where I served as a member of the Assembly, he served as a member of the Senate and we are both opposed, Democrat and Republican, to the gentleman from California (Mr. Doolittle) who also served with us. It is obvious that there are just two vast differences of opinion here. Every bill about campaign finance reform, about the system we have in America, wants to change the way money is contributed to campaigns with the exception of one, Mr. Doolittle. He wants to open up thinking that the way to get elected to Congress is to just add more money, throw more money on the problem. Mr. Chairman, in 1998 the Senate and the House have already spent $112 million and we have not even had a general election. Is the problem there is not enough money? I do not think so.”