Mark Neumann: “I rise to address what is a very important issue and has been uniquely addressed in the great State of Wisconsin. In a…”

“I rise to address what is a very important issue and has been uniquely addressed in the great State of Wisconsin. In a Senate race developing out there, of course, campaign finance reform came up, and the debate really is about whether the people here in Washington know best how to draw up the campaign finance laws and whether or not what we think here in Washington should be mandated and dictated to every State all over the Nation, or whether it would be more appropriate to do as we have done in the great State of Wisconsin and reach some voluntary agreements in limiting various parts of the campaign finance reform in compliance with what the people in the State of Wisconsin want us to do. This very quickly becomes a debate about whether the people in Washington know what is best for every State all across the United States, for California, for New York, for Wisconsin, or whether it would be better in fact to have the people out there in those States make voluntary agreements amongst themselves as to how best to apply some campaign finance restrictions. In Wisconsin, we have reached voluntary agreements to limit the overall spending. We have reached voluntary agreements to limit the percent of money coming from PACs and special interests. We have reached voluntary agreements to limit the amount of money coming from out-of-State.”