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Robert C. Byrd: “The sad state of our system of financing Senate campaigns is not a Democratic debacle. It is not a Republican debacle.…”

On the recordFebruary 18, 1988
The sad state of our system of financing Senate campaigns is not a Democratic debacle. It is not a Republican debacle. It affects all of us.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Feb 18, 1988

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Speaking on a cloture vote on campaign finance reform legislation.

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