Roy Blunt: “I think this debate will in all likelihood produce a result, whether that result is out of conference or from the floor…”

“I think this debate will in all likelihood produce a result, whether that result is out of conference or from the floor today. Those who suggest that a conference would not work, I think, overlook the desire that the President has, that others have, to have campaign finance reform. The idea that we would file a bill at 11 o'clock or so last night, that I think is substantially different from the bill that was filed a year ago, and we would be told on the floor today that really this cannot be improved, that any amendment is a killer amendment, or a conference is a bad thing, we take very important pieces of legislation to conference and usually they benefit from that conference. Certainly the White House can be more involved in a conference than they would ever be involved in debate on the floor. This is a bill that for weeks and months now we have talked about a bill that would, I think, the phrase, the term of art, is ban unlimited soft money. The truth is, there are plenty of soft-money loopholes in this bill.”