Max Cleland: “hearing the discussion in this Chamber today gets my juices flowing. I appreciate the comments of everyone here. It…”

“hearing the discussion in this Chamber today gets my juices flowing. I appreciate the comments of everyone here. It reminds me that back in my great State of Georgia there is a little town called Waycross that has adopted as its mascot a little comic strip character called Pogo. Pogo was a little possum that lived on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp, and he was famous for one statement, which is, ``We have met the enemy and he is us.'' There is no question, Mr. President, that the enemy of campaign finance reform is us, and yet the friends of campaign finance reform are us. We have to resolve this issue. It is not going to be left up to anyone else, any one other body. We have to do it and no one else is going to do it. I am extremely pleased to join with my distinguished colleagues from Arizona and Wisconsin and Maine and Michigan to discuss this critical issue that I think is one of the most important issues we face certainly this year. Now, my friends, Senators McCain and Feingold, have indicated we will be voting on this issue in this Chamber this September.”