On the recordJune 18, 1998
You bet we did not. Because there were things in there like limiting the expenditure of campaigns to $70,000. I mean, a whole campaign spending $70,000, trying to reach the voters. In the Senate they limited it to 8 cents per voter, 8 cents per voter. Do you know why they did all that? I say to the gentleman from Massachusetts, it is so they could stifle challengers and give advantages to incumbents. That is exactly why we oppose the 1974 law that, most of it was struck down by the Supreme Court over time, and that is why we are very concerned about the severability of this one. We do not want another law like the 1974 Watergate incumbent protection plan, because it is all interrelated, it is all put together, and the gentleman from Massachusetts says, if we put one unconstitutional amendment here, it is a poison pill. Well, one more poison pill in a bottle half full of poison pills will not make a difference.
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