[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 36 (Thursday, March 26, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1558]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 REPUBLICANS' CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM BILL IS EMBARRASSMENT TO COUNTRY

  (Mr. SNYDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, why would the Republican leaders of this 
House send to the floor a campaign finance reform bill that is not 
campaign finance reform, a bill that Common Cause calls a ``hoax,'' the 
League of Women Voters calls a ``travesty,'' The New York Times calls a 
``charade,'' and the Washington Post calls a ``mockery''?
  Has the Republican leadership become like a fish that no longer feels 
the water, that no longer feels wet in the water?
  What do I mean by that? Have they become like a fish that is swimming 
in money all the time in Washington, D.C., no longer aware of how 
inappropriate these huge, unregulated several hundred thousand dollar 
donations are?
  This campaign finance reform bill they are presenting to this House 
floor, the only one they are letting come to this floor, is not 
campaign finance reform. It is not leadership; it is an embarrassment 
to this country.

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