Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick: “last week the Committee on House Oversight, of which I am a member, reported out a bill called campaign finance reform.…”

“last week the Committee on House Oversight, of which I am a member, reported out a bill called campaign finance reform. What a sham. The bill, among other things, increases the limits that an individual could give a party from $20,000 to $60,000. Now, who does that benefit? I put an amendment in at that time, and will again on the floor if the Committee on Rules allows, to strike section 1, which would ban labor unions and nonprofits from educating their people, their members, on what Federal legislation and otherwise they need to know about before they vote. How is that campaign finance reform, campaign finance reform that the people want to take all the money out, $600 million raised last year, soft money and hard money from the Republican Party, $60 million from Democrats, Republicans and Democrats. Too much money. American voters want to participate and they do not want to have to have $75,000 to do so.”