[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 16, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7287]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
(Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, another week has gone by in
Washington, and still the Republican leadership has not scheduled a
vote on campaign finance reform. Delay has always been the strategy of
those who are opposed to curbing the influence of special interest
money. We cannot accept delay any longer.
My colleagues and I are demanding that Speaker Gingrich schedule a
vote to ban soft money, the huge unregulated contributions to both
political parties that have corrupted our political process in
Congress. But the Speaker's response is there is not time, or the
Speaker's response is what we need is more money in our election
system. That is wrong.
Tomorrow afternoon the Republicans hope to leave work early in the
day to travel to New York City to hold a massive fund raiser.
Apparently there is enough time in the congressional schedule to leave
early and fly to New York on private jets to raise money, but there is
not enough time to schedule a vote on campaign finance reform and to
ban soft money. This is unacceptable, Mr. Speaker, to me, to my
colleagues, and to the majority of the American people.
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