Roy Blunt: “I do not think we can have campaign finance reform outside of the context of election reform. There are certainly those…”

“I do not think we can have campaign finance reform outside of the context of election reform. There are certainly those in this House who would like to talk about only one element of what is wrong with our campaigns. This rule allows more than that to happen. How do we enforce the laws we have? The White House has done a great job since November of 1996 talking about the fact that the reason they violated the laws that we had was because we did not have enough laws. Nobody believes that. The worst thing we can do when people do not obey the rules is create more rules. Mr. Speaker, if we have teenage children at home and they are not obeying the rules, the last thing we do is say we are going to double the number of rules. We have to debate in this context how we enforce the rules. Enforcing the rules matters. That has to be part of this discussion. Somebody raised the issue of motor-voter, whether that related to campaign finance reform. We have really made it impossible for local jurisdictions that used to do a good job maintaining the integrity of their voter rolls to do that. Money is spent to turn out votes of people who are not on the voter rolls. That is definitely an election reform, it is a campaign finance reform.”