Tom Price: “I appreciate those comments, because they are right on where we need to get to. The problem is that politics is the art…”

“I appreciate those comments, because they are right on where we need to get to. The problem is that politics is the art of the possible so what we have got working here in this Chamber is the possibility of appropriate reform right now. The accountability and disclosure that you mentioned, I think it is important to mention these numbers, Mr. Speaker, because they are staggering. The American people need to know that. George Soros, we have talked about, $27 million. Peter Lewis, $23.9 million. This is personal money coming into campaigns that the American people don't know anything about. There is no way for them to get that information. Herbert and Marian Sandler, $14 million. Stephen Bing you mentioned, but you didn't mention the number. The number is $13.9 million. That is money, Mr. Speaker, that is being used to influence elections and nobody knows about it. When you and I, Congressman McHenry, have our elections, what do we do? We put on everything that we have got, Paid for by Price for Congress, or Paid for by McHenry for Congress. We have to disclose that. And that is appropriate. What happens when they spend nearly $80 million? Nobody knows. I would like to yield now to a good friend and colleague who is not a freshman, who has been around here for a little while, but he is a good friend and he has excellent insight into this and so many other issues and is truly interested, Mr.…”