[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7613]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CAMPAIGN INTEGRITY ACT OF 1997

  (Mr. ALLEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ALLEN. Mr. Speaker, those of us who are freshmen experienced the 
1996 elections in a different way. There was soft money involved in 
those elections on a scale never before seen. Issue advocacy groups 
were participating in the election on a scale that has never happened 
before.
  Beginning in February, our Freshmen Task Force sat down and tried to 
figure out how we could pass real campaign finance reform in this 
session. We proposed a soft money ban. That bill is now H.R. 2183, the 
Campaign Integrity Act of 1997. It bans soft money, it provides new 
restrictions or new requirements for disclosure on issue advocacy, and 
it tightens up candidate disclosure. It is a good bill. It needs to 
come to the floor of this Congress for a vote.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge the Republican leadership and the other side not 
simply to keep investigating without legislating; bring this bill to 
the floor, and let us give the Members of this Congress a chance to do 
something besides investigate. Let us change the way we finance 
campaigns. Let us vote on the bill.

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