On the recordJuly 12, 2001
It had been the reasonable expectation of reformers on both sides of the aisle, I believe, that the two competing propositions would be allowed to face each other in a stand-up, fair fight, Shays-Meehan on one side of the issue and the Ney-Wynn proposition on the other side of the issue. Instead, the Committee on Rules has not allowed that to happen. What they have done is report a rule which will require campaign finance legislation to be debated under very strange circumstances. It will not allow Shays-Meehan to present their package as a coherent whole. It requires some 12 amendments to be voted on separately. I would say that that is sort of like telling people to go into a car dealer if they want to buy a car and telling them they have to buy one that is disassembled; they will have to buy a transmission separately; they will have to buy the tires separately; they will have to buy the motor separately.
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