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Robert C. Byrd: “We have lessened the influence of the special interests by enacting spending limits in Presidential campaigns. Should we…”

On the recordJanuary 25, 1989
We have lessened the influence of the special interests by enacting spending limits in Presidential campaigns. Should we not rid the people's branch of the undue influence of special interest money?
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Jan 25, 1989

Editor's note · Context

Urging the Senate to act on congressional campaign finance reform.

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