On the recordJune 24, 2010
Without this legislation big money will control the people's voice. But what we most want to do is to break the locks and chains that big money causes in elections. We want to take away the right of those who want to demonize someone who, for example, may be interested in comprehensive immigration reform. That's their viewpoint, they're running on that. Maybe they're not. Or someone who's running against it. We don't want to have big money demonize a perspective that maybe the public should hear. I would argue that we should want to break those locks and break those chains of big money telling the American people what to do. I ask my colleagues to support H.R. 5175, the underlying bill, and the rule.
