Ron Kind: “Tomorrow we are going to start a debate about the biggest issue confronting this United States Congress, and that is…”

“Tomorrow we are going to start a debate about the biggest issue confronting this United States Congress, and that is campaign finance reform. There has been a lot of allegations about technology transfer to China in recent days and a lot of attention given to it, as it should. But the Speaker indicates that this is a national security issue and not a campaign finance reform issue. How wrong he is. This has everything to do with campaign finance reform. We have been promised over and over again by the leadership in this House to have an open and fair and honest debate on campaign finance reform. The American people get this. They understand there is too much money in the political system and too much influence of money in the political system. This body, in the coming days, will have the ability to start cleaning up the process and restoring some integrity to this democracy of ours. And I hope the American people hold us individuals accountable on where we stand on this. Do we stand for reform or do we stand for big money? I hope it is for reform.”