Political Quotes

“several of our colleagues, and I respect their views, have come during the course of this very good debate this afternoon on this issue and tried to indicate in their judgment that this action by the Rules Committee is a deterrent, stalling or in another way impeding the progress of the Senate on the generic subject of campaign finance reform, which we have been working on now for some 2 years, and I do not think this is in any way a deterrent. As a matter of fact, the Governmental Affairs committee is to go on until next December. It would be my hope and expectation that the distinguished majority leader and the Senator from Oklahoma in consultation with the minority leader would work on a schedule that is mutually agreeable. And I also wish to commend the Senator for taking the leadership in consultation with the majority leader to have a specific task force within our group that is now assessing what can be done and what will withstand constitutional scrutiny of the Federal courts to put a package together. It would be wrong to put a package through here if we all knew, many of us being lawyers, that it was going to be struck down by the Federal courts.”