[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13082]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               OPPOSE THE RULE ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. SHERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am anxious, we are all anxious, to begin 
campaign finance reform and to begin it by making our rules more fair. 
Unfortunately, we need to oppose the rule that is coming before this 
House this morning. It is a rule that tells the gentleman from 
Connecticut (Mr. Shays) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Meehan) that they cannot present their bill to this House in the form 
that they want to present it. Instead, the manager's amendment is 
chopped up into 12 pieces.
  This is unprecedented. This is unfair. This is not reform. This is 
not the way this House should conduct its business. A vote on Shays-
Meehan should be a vote on the bill that the authors would like us to 
vote on, not an old draft from 3 or 4 weeks ago. If we have a manager's 
amendment that comes before this House, it should be one amendment, not 
chopped up into 12 time-wasting pieces.
  Vote ``no'' on the rule.

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