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On the recordJanuary 26, 2011
10 million Americans want to participate in public financing of Presidential campaigns. And I would dare say that dwarfs anything we've heard from YouCut. So if we're going to get in the business of what the American people want and how they've expressed themselves, 10 million voices are in threat of being silenced today by this rule and the underlying legislation. The idea that we're going to save money and solve the deficit by eliminating public financing in presidential campaigns is fallacious. But I will give the other side credit: It is intellectually honest. When you have a Supreme Court ruling like Citizens United that fosters anonymous financing of campaigns, no wonder you want to delete public financing of campaigns.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Jan 26, 2011

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Connolly addresses the impact of proposed cuts to public financing of presidential campaigns.

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