Political Quotes

“no, you cannot do that. That is illegal under the present law, and it would be illegal if this bill passed. All this says is if there are bills that come in after the deadline, you can pay those bills in accordance with Federal law. So if there was a soft-money bill that could only be paid for with soft money, you could pay it before the January 1 date. The same is true for hard money. But you could not borrow hard money and then pay it off with soft money. That would be illegal.”