[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 35 (Wednesday, March 25, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Ms. KILPATRICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KILPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, last week the Committee on House 
Oversight, of which I am a member, reported out a bill called campaign 
finance reform. What a sham. The bill, among other things, increases 
the limits that an individual could give a party from $20,000 to 
$60,000. Now, who does that benefit?
  I put an amendment in at that time, and will again on the floor if 
the Committee on Rules allows, to strike section 1, which would ban 
labor unions and nonprofits from educating their people, their members, 
on what Federal legislation and otherwise they need to know about 
before they vote.
  How is that campaign finance reform, campaign finance reform that the 
people want to take all the money out, $600 million raised last year, 
soft money and hard money from the Republican Party, $60 million from 
Democrats, Republicans and Democrats. Too much money.
  American voters want to participate and they do not want to have to 
have $75,000 to do so.

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