[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 10 (Wednesday, February 11, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H389]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. SNYDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, this morning on a local radio station a 
little girl called in with the joke of the day and the joke was, ``What 
do you call a boomerang if it doesn't come back? A stick.''
  We are confronting here the issue of campaign finance reform, and the 
fear of many people in America and the fear of many people in this 
House, is that we will have a bill presented before this body that will 
be called campaign finance reform but will, in fact, be just an empty 
stick with none of the clout of a true campaign finance reform fill. I 
am one of the cosponsors of the freshman campaign finance reform bill, 
and, at a minimum, it must be one that bans soft money and severely 
restricts these huge, unlimited donations to the parties.
  In addition to that, our campaign finance reform bill must have no 
poison pills, and by that I mean to have provisions in the bill that 
would mean large numbers of this body would have to vote against it. 
There are options out there with bipartisan support that this House and 
the American people would support without such poison pills and I 
encourage the Members of this body to support them.

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