Russ Feingold: “It is interesting that the Senator makes that comment because a few years ago, for example, there was no question that…”

“It is interesting that the Senator makes that comment because a few years ago, for example, there was no question that Philip Morris could not write out a million-dollar check and run ads like that, but somehow now it is almost standard practice. Somehow the law has been moved away from almost a century-long prohibition on corporate spending in connection with Federal elections to the ability to have unlimited spending on Federal elections through the ruse of pretending that an issue ad is an issue ad when it actually does everything but say the words, of course, ``vote for'' or ``vote against'' a certain candidate. Isn't that just, in effect, eliminating the whole corporate prohibition that has existed for such----”