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Louise Slaughter: “If you tell the House you do not want to move on a vote on the rule, control of the House floor will revert to the…”

On the recordApril 16, 1997
If you tell the House you do not want to move on a vote on the rule, control of the House floor will revert to the opponents of the rule for a vote on an alternative course of action. We would use the opportunity to instruct the leadership by majority vote of the House to bring campaign finance reform to a vote under an open rule by the end of next month. This is a substantive vote and the place where you can tell the leadership you want campaign finance to be a priority on the House agenda.
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Louise Slaughter
New York
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of a procedural vote related to campaign finance reform.

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