Christopher Shays: “I am not a great fan of calling amendments by Members' names. My general view is if we have campaign finance reform to…”

“I am not a great fan of calling amendments by Members' names. My general view is if we have campaign finance reform to call it the bipartisan bill for campaign finance reform and not attach a Member's name to it. But I want to say to my colleagues that I take tremendous pride today in having this be the Mollohan-Shays amendment. I really believe that the gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. Mollohan], the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Sawyer] and others, frankly, on that side of the aisle are right and most of my colleagues on my side of the aisle are wrong. I believe, with all my heart and soul, that the Census Bureau needs to test intensive door-to-door surveys, it needs to test outreach programs, it needs to test advertising, it needs to test hiring practices and who they hire, it needs to test telephone responses, it needs to test multiple site form distributions, it needs to test polling by mail, and yes, it also needs to test and review the results of statistical sampling. What most on my side of the aisle want to do is deny the Commerce Department and the Census Bureau the opportunity to prove the validity of statistical sampling.”