Political parties, which have played a vital role in getting out the Status of groups such as that by curtailing the ability of our Not have to know who the contributors are. Time for a television ad or newspaper ad or send out a flier. Private group that decides to become politically active, which they I really do not know who the contributors are to a Unlimited amounts of soft money without any real reporting One of the provisions that is in the bill that I am very worriedĪbout allows unregulated special interest groups to raise and spend So that was not good in the bill, and I think the provisions Their views, expressed through their contributions, able to be heardĪnd not be drowned out by outside groups from another State orĭistrict. Hamper the people of the State, especially a small State, from having How much you can raise outside the State. I think we are creating a monster by not putting in a limitation on That State can be totally drowned out by interest groups in Washington, To have situations, especially in a small State, where the people of We do not know, to have unregulated access to the system and limit theĬapability of parties whose contributors are made public. Is before us today is going to allow outside groups, whose contributors The bill I introduced last year, I said that 60 percent of campaignĬontributions should come from a Member or candidate's home State orĭistrict, because I do not think a group from outside the State shouldīe able to drown out the people of the State or district. Just tell everyone the majority of a person'sĬontributions are coming from outside the State.īut what we are doing in this bill is exacerbating the problem. Introduced that are not included in the bill.įirst, I believe an inordinate amount of campaign contributions canĬome from outside a person's home State or district. Provision that limits the amount of loans a candidate can repay, loans I am glad to see included in the current legislation a Last year I proposed several reforms that were in a bill I Of changing it is a very bad process that will result in a bad bill. Most people would like to see campaign finance reform. Unreasonable to request the ability to have some amendments to try to To vote cloture on a bill that we have not debated since it came from Hard it is to get a bill into final form. Leading the effort to point out some of the flaws in this campaignįinance reform bill. President, I thank the Senator from Kentucky for I yield to the distinguished Senator from Texas such I appreciate theĬooperation on that is that a unanimous consent request? Provisions of the unanimous consent agreement would be in effect. Before the Republican leader leaves, it would be toĮveryone's interest to have the vote start at 12:50. shall be equally divided between the two leaders or their 2356) to amend the Federal Election CampaignĪct of 1971 to provide bipartisan campaign reform. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:Ī bill ( H.R. Senate will now resume consideration of H.R. For complete and accurate display of this text, see the PDF.įrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [BIPARTISAN CAMPAIGN REFORM ACT OF 2002 Formatting necessary for an accurate reading of this text may be shown by tags (e.g., or ) or may be missing from this TXT display.
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