Christopher Shays: “Yes. And the bill that we passed in the House made it a proactive responsibility of the union to notify their members…”

“Yes. And the bill that we passed in the House made it a proactive responsibility of the union to notify their members that if they did not want their union dues money to be going to any campaign through the soft money, that loophole, and the sham-issues ads, that other loophole, they could say they did not want it and withdraw as a member of the union and still pay the agency fee, which is the union dues money minus what goes for political purposes. My wife took advantage of it. She took advantage of it, and for a number of years her money was not contributed to places she did not want. The sad thing clearly was that she was forced to have to withdraw from the union.”