[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15745]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY WE DO POLITICS IN AMERICA

  (Mr. NOLAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NOLAN. Madam Speaker, Members of the House, money and negative 
advertising in the last election cycle has clearly established the need 
for us to change the way we do politics here in America.
  Putting an end to negative advertising is so essential. It is not 
only polluting the airwaves on TV, but it is denigrating the 
candidates, it is corrupting the public policy process, and it is 
dangerously diminishing people's confidence in our system.
  I was greatly heartened 2 years ago to see the spirit of 
bipartisanship that came with all the new Members of the Congress. I am 
seeing it again. But until we change the way we do our politics, it is 
not going to be realized.
  We need to do this by putting an end to all this money by outside 
special interests and their negative advertising and complement that 
with a change in the way we do business with open rules, where every 
idea gets a chance to be heard and voted on.
  That is how bipartisanship works. That is how things get done. That 
is essential for compromise, and that is where we need to go to restore 
people's confidence in our system here in America.

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