Don Nickles: “Mr. President, just a few general comments on campaign reform. Everybody says, ``Well, now we change the law. It's…”

“Mr. President, just a few general comments on campaign reform. Everybody says, ``Well, now we change the law. It's vitally important for us to change the law.'' I think it is more important, and maybe the best campaign reform that we could have would be enforcement of the existing law. Why in the world, if the statutes are very clear on the books--and some people say they are ambiguous; I think I will show in a moment they are not that ambiguous--why in the world should we be worried about changing the law if we are not going to enforce the law as it is written? We have numerous cases that, I believe clearly, laws were broken, and in some cases flagrantly broken, and yet we have seen almost no enforcement from this administration, and yet they are out there beating the drum, saying, ``Change the law. Change the law.'' It reminds me of something like somebody has been robbing banks and says, ``Oh, yes, let's have a tougher law against bank robbing. Oh, yeah, I've been doing it a long time. Oh, yeah, if I get caught, I'll send the money back.'' I don't think that is good enough.…”