Barney Frank: “reclaiming my time, do I oppose it? Yes, I oppose it. Under this procedure I will oppose it. I will not support the…”

“reclaiming my time, do I oppose it? Yes, I oppose it. Under this procedure I will oppose it. I will not support the diminution, the continued reduction of democracy in the House. And I think, yes, there could be a lot of free speech, but not by shutting it down in the House. I will say again, nobody can give us a substantive justification of why this is being done this way. Look, this involves the Constitution. It involves the complex issues of campaign finance regulation. It involves how you take technology and how you adapt basic constitutional principles to it, and that is to be debated by 20 minutes on each side, and that is to be preformed with no amendments. Mr. Speaker, it is a joke. It is self-parody. Let us all defend free speech by not having any. I hope that this is voted down and that we then can have an appropriate debate under the rules of the House with amendments and with full discussion.”