Political Quotes

“I want to take it step by step. But as far as legislation, to the extent that the Senate hopefully will adopt legislation on campaign finance reform and campaign finance violations, this Senator is going to--and has and will continue to--work vigorously toward that goal. At the current time, the distinguished majority leader has designated the majority whip to head a task force on this side of the aisle, and I am a part of that. I can assure we are working diligently. So that's the legislative action. The second point I wish to make is, I don't know of anything done by the Rules Committee in this particular resolution, or in any other thing the Rules Committee has done, which would deter the Senate or forestall the Senate from taking up campaign finance reform whenever the concurrence as to the timing comes with the distinguished majority leader and the minority leader. That is traditionally the function of those two leaders. That is a subject that is being actively discussed between the leaders. So nothing we have done deters that. That is a separate timing, a separate subject. But we see when we pick up the papers, there is something new on this subject every day. It is the most distressing period I have ever seen.”