Bill Pascrell: “In the debate that we are having here on this floor, the two major bills that we are discussing and, according to the…”

“In the debate that we are having here on this floor, the two major bills that we are discussing and, according to the Speaker of this House, the bill that we are discussing as a base bill deals with soft money. That is money that comes into the campaign in the last 3 or 4 weeks which if you have not received and collected enough hard money, you cannot win that election in the last 3 or 4 weeks unless you are way ahead. He knows it and I know it. We are talking about soft money that we do not know how much is really spent in a campaign, and that is true with Democrats and Republicans. This is not a partisan issue.”