Kendra S. Horn: “On that very point, I mentioned the Republican bill we brought to the floor in the 103d Congress. We had a compromise…”

“On that very point, I mentioned the Republican bill we brought to the floor in the 103d Congress. We had a compromise bill also that we tried to get to the floor. The Democratic bill came in where they want the public to pay for their campaigns. The Republican bill came in, no PAC money, no soft money, raise most of it in your district. But the so-called Synar-Livingston bill, Mike Synar, then a Representative from Oklahoma, now suffering some ill health, was the leader on it with Bob Livingston, the chairman of our Committee on Appropriations now. And there were eight others of us that did not take PAC money, generally, that were on it. And what he did was cut PAC's down to $1,000 from their current $5,000 in the primary they can give you and $5,000 in the general election. He cut them down to $1,000, and he cut the present maximum of $1,000 from an individual down to $500 and felt that was par and that would pull back both of them, a little bit of nuclear disarmament, as you have been talking about. Of course, what happened was the Democratic leadership knew we could get that passed in the House.”