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Kim Reynolds: “The Shays-Meehan bill would provide $30 million to both parties at the State and local level. I do not exactly know what…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2002
The Shays-Meehan bill would provide $30 million to both parties at the State and local level. I do not exactly know what the Ney-Wynn bill would provide in those dollars. But I can say that the Shays-Meehan bill empowers special interests to use independent expenditures, which I really consider underground money, to influence campaigns while silencing average Americans. Most everyone wants to reform our campaign finance laws, but taking away first amendment rights and limiting free speech is not the way to do it.
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Kim Reynolds
Republican · Iowa

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Discussing campaign finance reform during a House floor debate.

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