On the recordApril 12, 2000
we said, look, whether those ads are put on by a Democrat, a pro-environmental group or an anti-environmental group, let us at least tell the taxpayers who is financing them. And this Republican leadership, the same Republican leadership that could have just sent all of us and the American people a cassette with the speeches that they gave last session or the session before that or the session before that or the session before that on this same sorry proposal. They said they did not have time to consider that. They basically said that the only way they can get through this election was to continue taking unlimited amounts of secret money, including foreign money, that can be dumped into these political Swiss bank accounts called 527's and continue to stuff misinformation into our mailboxes and run hate on to the airwaves. They refused to consider the proposal that the gentleman personally has sponsored, did they not?
Source
govinfo.gov
