Political Quotes

“America has asked for real reform of the way this Congress operates, an end to the money chase and more attention to the Nation's business, and a bipartisan effort has been made to accomplish real campaign finance reform, supported by a number of independent citizen watchdog groups. But today, 1 week after Reform Week was canceled by the Gingrich leadership, today we will have phony reform and be denied completely an opportunity to even vote on a bipartisan reform of the way business operates here. And what of the bill that will come before us? Well, 10 Republicans have described that Gingrich bill as fundamentally flawed, more so than the current system, as freezing the average American out of the political process. That is their description of the bill. The independent watchdog groups like Common Cause have been more direct. They refer to this Thomas bill as phony reform that locks in the corrupt status quo, leaves open the floodgates of special interest PAC money and increases the amounts that the wealthy can give. This is not reform, it is a fraud.”