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On the recordSeptember 22, 2010
I come to the floor in an effort to try to get my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to join us in preserving our democracy. I heard the Republican leader's remarks that we should be focused on jobs, and we have been, notwithstanding the constant obstruction of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle by using the filibuster countless times in terms of us being able to move forward on jobs. But this legislation is about jobs. Some people might ask: Well, what does the disclosure of campaign finance have to do with jobs? It has everything to do with it because the murky special interests that are out there spending unlimited amounts of corporate money are not spending it because they just want to participate in our electoral process without a purpose. They are participating because they have a purpose.…
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez addresses the importance of campaign finance disclosure in relation to job creation.

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