[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11008]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS FOR ALL AMERICANS

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Madam Speaker, once again, we 
have discovered that there appears to be some glitch in the majority's 
effort to bring the so-called DISCLOSE Act to the floor. It apparently 
is over how many people get exempted from the disclosure rules that 
otherwise prevail.
  We have had the NRA exemption, which was for organizations which have 
over 1 million people, which have actually existed more than 10 years, 
which have people in all 50 States, in D.C. and in Puerto Rico, and 
which have less than 15 percent of their funds from corporations. Now 
we understand they have dropped it to 500,000.
  Madam Speaker, we did not take the oath to the Constitution to only 
uphold part of the Constitution. It is time that we stop auctioning off 
the First Amendment and start understanding that we here are supposed 
to protect the First Amendment, not parcel it out, not deny it to some 
and give it to others. The First Amendment is for all Americans, not 
just for those favored by one party or another.

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