Dick Durbin said "I strongly favor PAC's because they tie candidates' promises to their performances by keeping records more effectively than do individuals. By linking their contributions to performance in areas of interest to the contributors, the PAC system encourages more people to be involved because it makes their contributions and their endorsement more effective. Let me quote again from Speaker Gingrich's book of 1984: ``This proliferation of open publicly registered and publicly monitored support is in the best tradition of participatory democracy.''" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJanuary 30, 1995

I strongly favor PAC's because they tie candidates' promises to their performances by keeping records more effectively than do individuals. By linking their contributions to performance in areas of interest to the contributors, the PAC system encourages more people to be involved because it makes their contributions and their endorsement more effective. Let me quote again from Speaker Gingrich's book of 1984: ``This proliferation of open publicly registered and publicly monitored support is in the best tradition of participatory democracy.''

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Dick Durbin

Democratic · Illinois

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing political action committees and their role in democracy.

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