Political Quotes

“I too have introduced legislation to require electronic filing of Federal Election Commission reports, and I would hope that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle who have complained about the lack of opportunities to support real campaign finance reform will join us in supporting this important measure, because who could possibly be opposed to this common sense reform? It ensures accountability and provides access to essential information regarding our political system. Right now when we file a campaign finance report with the FEC, we have to file it by the deadline imposed by the FEC. But that filing simply means putting it in the mail, the U.S. Postal Service, and sometimes it can take a week to get that report to the FEC. They then might take another several days or more to get it up and available to the public, so the news media, campaigns, the general public have a delay of sometimes 10 days or even 2 weeks between when a contribution is made and when they can learn about who contributed to whom in this situation. I think it is critically important that we adopt this legislation with electronic filing.”