Political Quotes

“But to those who have said they wanted a much broader bill, the first thing to point out is that 527s can be used by a union, they can be used by the trial lawyers, they can be used by right-to-life, by Planned Parenthood. This treats everyone who chooses to use a 527 in exactly the same way. It discriminates neither for nor in favor of anyone. The second thing, however, is that in the committee, seven Republicans, led by the gentleman from Delaware (Mr. Castle), and six Democrats came to the committee and they said, why do we not take a Republican idea advanced by Senator Snow and Senator Jeffords and add that onto the bill so we will cover more people. And we Democrats on the committee said, yes, that is a good idea. We will do that. Republicans on the committee raised numerous objections that that just was not broad enough, so we said, well, we will do more than that. We will extend this. We will do more to be sure we are covering and ensuring fairness and equity. We will cover unions and their activities, we will cover business organizations and their activities. We will try to treat everyone fairly and comprehensively.”