Sean Patrick Maloney: “the Republican majority has spent in this Congress $8 million investigating alleged campaign finance abuses, yet the…”

“the Republican majority has spent in this Congress $8 million investigating alleged campaign finance abuses, yet the same Republican majority failed to fund the Federal Elections Commission at the level they requested and said they needed to do the job. It was $6 million short. I am pleased my colleague says he will get the funding for this bill, but we have to get the funding they said they need in order to investigate the cases before them, the only group charged to investigate in a bipartisan way. The Speaker earlier said we would have a vote on campaign finance reform in this Congress, but what we have tonight is a campaign finance reform kill. Everyone knows that true reform has to be comprehensive. A little small approach, although worthy, will not get the job done. We have a comprehensive bill, Shays-Meehan. We should allow a vote on this bill before we go home and ask our constituents to vote for us.”