On the recordMarch 31, 1998
Mr. Speaker, we need to take back the political system in a way that will give the American people confidence. We have to put limits on spending. We have to decrease the amount of money to campaigns, not increase the amount of money to campaigns, and we have to have an honest debate on this floor with not just the ideas that have been created inside the Republican caucus, which were even rejected by a large number of the Republicans, but the ideas that are out here in the American public. I have a proposal to limit spending to a $100 contribution from any person in the country; not thousands, not $25,000, not $75,000. Other people have other ideas. I believe in public financing. Many people agree with that; some disagree with that. We ought to have an honest debate about these issues, and not let it die with the sham that occurred last night.
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