[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 111 (Thursday, July 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H8383-H8384]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 NO SUBSTANTIVE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. MEEHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEEHAN. Madam Speaker, the most fundamental way that we can 
reform the way the Congress does business is to pass campaign finance 
reform. The Republican leadership today will renege on that promise to 
offer real, substantive campaign finance reform. It will happen today.
  We had an opportunity. We were going to have reform week, and we have 
nothing. Now we have the Republicans presenting a bill before this 
House, calling it reform, that is a phony fraud.
  Campaign finance reform is up, and not one Member of the Republican 
Party got up before this House in one-minutes to defend their piece of 
fraud legislation. Does that not speak volumes about today's debate? 
Not one of

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them would get up and defend the campaign finance reform bill that they 
are going to present before this House today. It is a disgrace.
  We need to change our campaign finance system and we cannot get a 
bill to do it. They want to increase influence. Not one of their 
Members will come down and defend their bill. America is watching 
today, and Republicans will pay the price in November.

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