Russ Feingold: “Mr. President, it specifically provides for the ban of soft money which the Senator from Kentucky has denounced as an…”

“Mr. President, it specifically provides for the ban of soft money which the Senator from Kentucky has denounced as an unconstitutional part of the McCain-Feingold bill. So this notion that somehow the Senator from Kentucky was not supportive of this kind of concept, at least at that time, does not seem to withstand scrutiny. Mr. President, I would also like at this time to spend a few moments talking a little bit about a very important item, and that is the proposal before us offered by the majority leader. That represents, to me, an attempt to put the onus of the entire campaign finance issue just on organized labor. That is the substantive impact of this proposal. But I am afraid the proposal is, in the end, going to serve a larger purpose, if it prevails. The majority leader made it pretty clear that was his purpose. The purpose of the proposal, it seems to me, is to kill the McCain-Feingold bill.”