Political Quotes

“I have some additional reading material for the gentleman from Georgia and for all of his colleagues. This is it. You can read this page and you can get the full story of what the Republican Party has done in order to accomplish reform of our campaign finance system right here. It is one big blank. To get up and suggest that there can be a bipartisan discussion of this matter, as the gentleman just disclosed, is truly outrageous, because we have been denied any opportunity, either the Republicans, many of whom as individuals have come forward with constructive ideas on this, or the Democratic colleagues that I have, have been denied any opportunity to come to this floor and debate legislative proposals to try to improve this system in time for 1998. We have as I count it 13 days left in this month to pass any reform to address the problems that the gentleman just referred to and all of the other corrupting influences on congressional elections in this Nation. Yet the Speaker of the House refuses to schedule an opportunity for full debate on legislative proposals so that they can go through the morning newspaper instead of providing real reform in time for the 1998 elections.”