John Mica: “I think people want meaningful campaign reform. And our committee tangled with this, and we brought out measures, and we…”

“I think people want meaningful campaign reform. And our committee tangled with this, and we brought out measures, and we gave the House an opportunity to vote on it. But now this House is going to suffer the same fate that our committee suffered. I am not here to speak for or against one measure or the other, but I tell my colleagues that the reason we have 500 amendments and dozens of bills and proposals and differences of opinion is, in fact, we have 435 Members. My colleague from California (Mr. Horn) summed it up so well when he said, we have 435 experts on this issue. And that is our problem.”