Thomas Daschle: “I would suggest we are 1 hour and one vote close. That is how close we are. I would be willing to settle for an hour of…”

“I would suggest we are 1 hour and one vote close. That is how close we are. I would be willing to settle for an hour of debate on either side and have the vote on Shays-Meehan this afternoon and send it off to the President. What we get when we pass Shays-Meehan, or McCain-Feingold, is we finally get an end to ``soft money''; we finally get some constraints on this outrageous escalation of so-called independent issue ads. We get an array of additional improvements in our systems that constrain and further constrict the money-hungry process from continuing to escalate out of control. That is what we get with one vote and 1 hour.”