[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 120 (Thursday, September 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H7204-H7205]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  QUESTIONS ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. THUNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)

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  Mr. THUNE. Mr. Speaker, one speaker after another on the other side 
stands up before this body and piously proclaims the need for campaign 
finance reform. Well, Mr. Speaker, I have a few questions for my 
colleagues.
  Mr. Speaker, I would ask my colleagues to please tell me how their 
campaign finance bill will propose to handle foreign money? Oh, let me 
guess. That would be illegal. I would ask my colleagues to please tell 
me how their campaign finance bill will handle political activity that 
is done on Government property? Oh, let me guess. That would be 
illegal. And, Mr. Speaker, I would ask my colleagues to please tell me 
how their campaign finance bill will handle the unauthorized 
dissemination of top secret, classified information to campaign 
officials. Well, let me guess. That would be illegal.
  Mr. Speaker, I say to my colleagues on the other side, let us be 
clear about the issue here. No campaign finance bill would address the 
illegal activity that may have occurred during the last campaign. These 
things are already illegal, and no currently existing law stopped their 
side from violating the law.

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