On the recordJune 24, 1996
we are at the heart of the matter now. The Senator from Arizona does not like the way in which first amendment rights are conducted or exercised at the present time. He therefore wants to limit them. The genius of America in voluntary associations is to him somehow so repulsive that no voluntary association, no unincorporated, voluntary association in America, none whatsoever, is going to be allowed to contribute to a candidate--none. You cannot get together in America in a voluntary association and contribute to a candidate because he does not like the distribution of money from political action committees. Well, thank God for James Madison. Thank God for the prohibition on the part of this Congress or any other Congress to abridge the right of free speech just because this Senator does not like the way in which it is exercised at the present time. The present law is bad, Mr. President. This law is worse.
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