On the recordSeptember 26, 1997
many of the constitutional questions that are debated here today in the context of the validity of this bill have already been debated this year in a more open and more refreshing manner. When those who propose to limit free speech on political issues had the courage to propose an amendment that would restrict the first amendment right of free speech on political issues, while they were, in my view, entirely wrong, while they proposed a disaster to the most fundamental basis of free government, they at least had the intellectual integrity and consistency to recognize that what they wanted to do was inconsistent with the first amendment as it has existed from the time of the first Congress until this day. Now they produce a bill with two fundamental flaws. In most respects--many at least--it is clearly unconstitutional and, in every other respect, it is bad policy.
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