John Chenoweth: “let me remind Members again of their views on free speech and healthy campaigns and a healthy democracy. They said it…”

“let me remind Members again of their views on free speech and healthy campaigns and a healthy democracy. They said it right here. They say, we cannot have both. And what we are hearing today in this amendment is, we peel off free speech. We just heard the distinguished gentleman from Illinois quote Abraham Lincoln, when Abraham Lincoln asked, at a very poignant time, a very important time in this Nation, how long can we endure, how long can we endure with the freedoms that we do have. We must endure and we must protect those freedoms and then this Nation will remain free. The Constitution's authors trusted the people of this great Nation to make well-informed decisions about their lives and about their representatives, and I trust the people. Unfortunately, some Members still do not trust the American people to make the right decisions and they do not trust that they are well informed in this free society. I ask that we defeat this amendment, H.J. Res. 119.”