On the recordFebruary 13, 2002
if ever there was an amendment that provided preferential speech in America it is the Torricelli amendment, and we ought to strike it. This amendment says that somehow Federal candidates for office in America, Federal politicians are entitled to special privileges, special rates, special time on the broadcast waves of America while other citizens are treated differently. Other citizens do not get those breaks. Other people who want to speak in this country politically do not get those breaks, just Federal candidates. Come on. This is the sort of thing the Founding Fathers worried about when they wrote the first amendment that said we should protect American citizens against the government dictating free speech.
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