[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 10 (Wednesday, February 11, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H390]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   BIPARTISAN CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (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, we are back in session and some of the 
stories in the paper are the same old stories. There are stories about 
too much money in politics, about investigations that go on and on.
  The Washington Post editorial this morning said it well. Many of the 
Senate Republicans who have criticized the Democratic fund-raising in 
1996 will now vote against significant campaign finance reform. We 
cannot let that happen in the House. We need a campaign finance reform 
bill on the floor of this House in March. It should be a bipartisan 
bill.
  The Republican majority has been questioned as to whether or not they 
are really serious about campaign finance reform, but there are some 
Republican freshmen who have stood with Democratic freshmen to put 
together a bill, H.R. 2183, the bipartisan Campaign Integrity Act of 
1998. It bans soft money, it improves issue advocacy disclosure, it 
tightens candidate reporting requirements.
  That is the bill we ought to bring to the floor of this House, a 
bipartisan campaign finance reform bill with no poison pills, no effort 
to get one side or the other, or the backers of one side or the other. 
We need real campaign finance reform; we need it now.

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