Bob Barr: “I come from the 7th District of Georgia, and I do not think we have any dolphins there, but this is important…”

“I come from the 7th District of Georgia, and I do not think we have any dolphins there, but this is important legislation to many districts around the country that have problems with tuna fishing and dolphins. We heard about, I do not know whether it was lords a leaping or dolphins leaping through the air in the sunset or something. And then we segued from that through a series of platitudes about let us let the chips fall where they may and money talks, all of which has nothing to do with either the issues of ethics in Government, honesty in Government, and selling our national security, nor does it have anything to do with the legislation at hand. But let us pick up the gauntlet that has been thrown down today, Mr. Speaker, and let us reflect on a couple of things here that are factually and historically accurate and deserve to be considered as part of this so-called debate on the other side. The campaign finance laws about which the other side is ranting and raving and railing today, Mr. Speaker, have been around actually for quite a while. As a matter of fact, they were enacted by Democrat Congresses.”