Sam Gejdenson: “We passed campaign finance reform and President George Bush vetoed it. We passed it through this House. It got to the…”

“We passed campaign finance reform and President George Bush vetoed it. We passed it through this House. It got to the Senate, and I can only reference the gentleman in the other body in the Republican Party from Kentucky who filibustered it to death, and in the opening days of this Congress he threatened to filibuster any new campaign reform bill to death. We passed it, it got vetoed by President Bush. We passed it through the House, it was filibustered to death in the Senate. What we are saying is, let us join together and pass a limit on spending. Let us limit the amount of money. Let us rebuild confidence in this system so we can work to reduce paperwork, so we can reduce the amount of time we spend raising money, and put our attention back on the people's business to take care of children, to make sure they have health care, to make sure the people losing their benefits have jobs and not street corners to hang out on.”