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Christopher Shays: “I think in order to have a ban on soft money, we have to ban it not on just the Federal level but on the State level for…”

On the recordAugust 6, 1998
I think in order to have a ban on soft money, we have to ban it not on just the Federal level but on the State level for Federal elections. And I think we cannot leave the current loophole of sham issue ads being allowed to continue when they are truly campaign ads. We need to make them campaign ads. They need to follow the campaign rules in order to eliminate that extraordinary loophole. We do have to continue to move forward with reform.
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Christopher Shays
Connecticut

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Discussing campaign finance reform and the need to address soft money and issue ads.

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