Russ Feingold: “I spoke this morning of the great victory of campaign finance reform in the House last night and the importance of…”

“I spoke this morning of the great victory of campaign finance reform in the House last night and the importance of taking up a bill quickly in the Senate so we can send it to the President. I expressed concern that games might be played by the House leadership in transmitting the bill to the Senate so we can consider it. I was pleased by the announcement this afternoon by Speaker Hastert that the bill should come over to us in a matter of days. That is good news, and I am pleased to hear it. The possibility of delay still exists in this body. I sincerely thank the majority leader for his tremendous commitment today to bring up the bill in the Senate as soon as it comes over and to lead us in fighting through whatever procedural hoops might be placed in our path to try to stop the Senate from acting on the bill. Any effort to prevent the Senate from acting on the bill I think will simply delay the inevitable; it would frustrate the will of the Senate and the will of the American people. Yesterday's strong bipartisan vote in the House after marathon debate demonstrates once again the time has come to pass the bill.”