Bob Clement said "I am very pleased, number one, that the Shays-Meehan passed by such an overwhelming vote. Now we have various amendments that could very well impact Shays-Meehan. I am not a lawyer, I am not a constitutional scholar, but I know one thing, that this language contains biased findings and attempts to impose a one-sided interpretation of the First Amendment as a matter of statutory law to falsely imply that the Shays-Meehan bill violates the First Amendment. All of us have to look at all of these amendments very, very closely, particularly these perfecting amendments, and how is it going to affect Shays-Meehan, because we have a good piece of legislation. We have not had any major reform on campaign finance reform since the 1970s. Why? Because of Watergate. And why are we getting the vote on Shays-Meehan and real campaign finance reform today? Because of the Enron scandal. Let us support strongly Shays-Meehan." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 13, 2002

I am very pleased, number one, that the Shays-Meehan passed by such an overwhelming vote. Now we have various amendments that could very well impact Shays-Meehan. I am not a lawyer, I am not a constitutional scholar, but I know one thing, that this language contains biased findings and attempts to impose a one-sided interpretation of the First Amendment as a matter of statutory law to falsely imply that the Shays-Meehan bill violates the First Amendment. All of us have to look at all of these amendments very, very closely, particularly these perfecting amendments, and how is it going to affect Shays-Meehan, because we have a good piece of legislation. We have not had any major reform on campaign finance reform since the 1970s. Why? Because of Watergate. And why are we getting the vote on Shays-Meehan and real campaign finance reform today? Because of the Enron scandal. Let us support strongly Shays-Meehan.

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Bob Clement

Tennessee

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of amendments on the Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill.

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