Kevin Brady: “I think we do have to agree that we need to enforce the laws on campaign finance in America, whether they are existing…”

“I think we do have to agree that we need to enforce the laws on campaign finance in America, whether they are existing laws or the new laws we are talking about, because without enforcement they are meaningless, what we are talking about is meaningless. Let me tell my colleagues this. I am proud to be in support of the freshman bill because my concern is that every election year we seem to drift farther and farther away from a citizen Congress, one made up of people from all walks of life. Today an open seat in Congress costs about a million dollars to win. A lot of people do not have a million dollars, they do not know where they would get a million dollars. And that is means that some day, and it is doubling every four years, by the way, so some day we are going to wake up and find out only the very wealthy people can serve in Congress. And I know a lot of people who may not be rich, but they are wealthy in common sense, they are prosperous in their principles, they have tremendous values, and while they may not live in the biggest house on the hill in my town, they would do America proud serving this House on this Hill, and I think the freshman bill moves us back toward a citizen Congress.”