[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 15 (Wednesday, February 25, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H585]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. TIERNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIERNEY. Madam Speaker, I rise today to talk about campaign 
finance reform. As we witness the current spectacle of the Senate 
leadership preventing a clean vote on even modest campaign reform, I 
urge my Republican colleagues in the House to stand up and resist any 
attempts by the House leadership to follow in the footsteps of the 
Senate leadership.
  Let us have a full and open debate in this House on campaign finance 
reform. Let us have a straight up-or-down vote on any one of the many 
measures that have been introduced here in the House. Let us not have a 
poison pill amendment. Let us have a clean vote so that our 
constituents can know where we stand on this very important issue.
  Madam Speaker, I note that 187 of my colleagues have signed a 
discharge petition that would bring the issue of campaign finance 
reform to the House floor for a vote. I urge my Republican friends and 
colleagues who say that they, too, want reform to join us in this 
effort.
  We may not agree on the actual context of any reforms, but the people 
in the House and all the Members therein are entitled to a debate that 
is open and honest and fair.

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