John Kerry: “As we all know, the cynicism of the American people is, regrettably, growing with respect to their view as to how…”

“As we all know, the cynicism of the American people is, regrettably, growing with respect to their view as to how politics works in their own country. Increasingly, that is reflected in their attitude about campaigns and voting. And many, many people are aware of the enormous influence of money in American politics. Regrettably, there appears, now, to already be a question arising within this Congress about the link of tobacco to some of the events that have taken place here. I wonder if the leader would not share with me the sense that the entire tobacco debate and the now-early investigative efforts taking place with respect to tobacco expenditures don't make even more compelling the notion that the U.S. Senate ought to deal with campaign finance reform as rapidly as possible?”