Max Baucus: “I also would like to get campaign finance reform passed. Why? I can tell you, having just been through an election, that…”

“I also would like to get campaign finance reform passed. Why? I can tell you, having just been through an election, that this country has dramatically changed the way campaigns are run and financed from just a few years ago. The present system is so bad. It is so obscene with virtually no limit on the total number of dollars raised or spent on behalf of, or for, or by candidates that it is demoralizing the country. It is causing the American people to think that the whole system stinks and becoming less and less involved in the democratic process and beginning to lose interest. And we run the risk of fragmenting a country--a country where Americans are going their own way; not a country that works together as a whole. It is a huge problem. I can tell you, Mr. President. It is a huge problem.”