[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 35 (Wednesday, March 25, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1454]
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, a year ago many people in this House, in a 
bipartisan fashion, adopted the principle of let us do the doable, and 
began talking about putting together bipartisan campaign finance reform 
bills that deal with the problem of the large soft money donations. 
Instead, the Republican leadership has adopted the principle of let us 
kill the killable, and will put up a bill tomorrow that is a bill in 
name only, campaign finance reform.
  They have put in provisions that have caused the League of Women 
Voters to call it a travesty, Common Cause to call it a hoax, the 
Washington Post to call it a mockery, and the New York Times to call it 
a charade.
  This Republican bill is not leadership, it is not campaign finance 
reform, it is an embarrassment to this House.

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