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Lloyd Doggett: “Instead of doing the kind of hot air measure that we have here today, I believe the gentleman joined with me in saying…”

On the recordApril 12, 2000
Instead of doing the kind of hot air measure that we have here today, I believe the gentleman joined with me in saying that that was wrong and that taxpayers ought to have a right to be able to find out whether it is some Texas friend of one of the other presidential candidates or whether it is Chinese money or Iraqi money or Cuban money or just some homegrown special interests that wants to pour money into these kind of Swiss bank accounts of the political season this year to make unlimited expenditures, but never tell the taxpayers who is funding these kinds of hate campaigns that the gentleman must have seen in New York State.
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

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Addressing campaign finance and transparency in political funding.

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