Ed Whitfield: “the reason that we are endorsing the gentleman from California's amendment is that he, in essence, returns to the…”

“the reason that we are endorsing the gentleman from California's amendment is that he, in essence, returns to the original Supreme Court language here. Basically, there will not be any question about it. That is really what this is all about. I realize that Shays-Meehan is a good-intentioned bill with all the best ideas that they can come up with. But the fact is it places so many things to interpretation, and the ultimate interpretation is going to be made by a group of commissioners at the FEC who are appointed by a President, and they have their political views. And so everybody else in America may be, the door may be closed unless they want to go through all this complicated procedure of filing reports and establishing political action committees and hiring election lawyers and doing that.”