Maurice Hinchey: “increasingly people across this country are referring to this Congress as the ``do nothing Congress.'' But more…”

“increasingly people across this country are referring to this Congress as the ``do nothing Congress.'' But more appropriately it might be referred to as the ``conspiratorial Congress.'' The leadership in this House has conspired with someone in this Congress to kill both antismoking legislation and campaign finance reform. The somebody yesterday succeeded in killing the antismoking legislation. That job has been done. Now the leadership in this House has got to live up to its part of the conspiracy and deliver on killing campaign finance reform. They are doing so by proposing a rule on the floor later today with an unprecedented 258 amendments designed to drag this issue out all through the summer into the fall. It is death to campaign finance reform by amendment. Mr. Speaker, that is the conspiracy that is going on in this Congress. We need Meehan-Shays on the floor. We need real campaign finance reform. Let us have a vote on the real bill.”