Lynn N. Rivers: “over the weekend, when I was driving to my district, I came up behind a car that had a bumper sticker that read ``Invest…”

“over the weekend, when I was driving to my district, I came up behind a car that had a bumper sticker that read ``Invest in America; buy a congressman.'' Interestingly enough, my chief of staff saw the same bumper sticker here in Washington, D.C. Apparently, this is a more widespread view than many of us would hope. It was fascinating to me, as I watched the earlier debate, that both parties, both sides of the aisle spent a certain amount of time attacking one another from where their monies were coming from, hoping that they would create some sort of suspicion on the part of the people watching at home about the other side and the availability of dollars and the source of dollars to them. I think that both sides succeeded. I think that the people at home believe that neither side is particularly clean about money. People at home believe that something has to be done about the campaign finance system in this country. The gentleman from Texas said the issue here is speech. No, the issue here is trust, how we are going to build a system that people at home can trust. I believe that we can have a system that protects free speech and is trustworthy, and I believe Shays-Meehan provides just that.”