Political Quotes

“To quote a great American Republican, Ronald Reagan, ``there you go again'' trying not to allow things to be out in the open when they should be in the open. This is a new effort to funnel unlimited money into politics. Current law limits trade association PACs from soliciting member corporations, their stockholders, and their executives without permission from the corporation and limits these solicitations to a single trade association PAC each year. This amendment would remove these solicitation restrictions and expand the number of solicitations a stockholder or corporate executive could get. I don't know about you, but I think most Americans are pretty sick of politically motivated fundraising emails. This would expand the number of emails that many people would get. This is just another way to empower groups, like the Chamber of Commerce, over the needs of ordinary Americans. That is not right. Last I heard, most trade association PACs were not lacking for money, and most corporations, millionaires, and billionaires had plenty of loopholes in our campaign finance system. But the gentleman from Nevada seems to think differently on both counts. This bill is not the right place to change campaign finance law, let alone to change it in a way that hurts American voters. I oppose the amendment. I reserve the balance of my time.”