Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, since March, we have called on the House to come together to support in a bipartisan fashion a cleanup of some of the worst excesses in our campaign finance system, what one expert referred to as the most dangerous loophole that has ever come along, period, what Senator McCain has rightly called this 527 political loophole, an egregious and obscene distortion of everything the American people believe in. I think it is unfortunate that we have this sudden switch to the suspension calender at this late hour, which will deny Members, both Republicans and Democrats, an opportunity to offer amendments to perfect the reform that has been advanced and to broaden it to be more comprehensive reform, and certainly its passage is imperiled by the two-thirds requirement. Mr. Speaker, I did not pick the procedure. We have it, I think we should utilize it now to try to move forward in the most constructive way possible to approve a reform that will be significant, though modest, in addressing this abuse.”