David D. Phelps: “I join my fellow Blue Dogs in supporting sensible campaign finance reform. I have supported campaign finance reform…”

“I join my fellow Blue Dogs in supporting sensible campaign finance reform. I have supported campaign finance reform throughout my entire political career, 14 years in the Illinois State Legislature and now a second term in Congress, and I will continue to do so until laws regarding this issue finally are enacted. Remember, the discharge petition is going to extreme efforts to force the leadership to just allow this body, the greatest deliberative body in the world, to do what we are sent here to do: to be able to put these issues out for everyone to understand them, to educate the public of what is going on here, as they compensate our activity.”