[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 24 (Monday, June 21, 1993)]
[Pages 1096-1097]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on Campaign Finance Reform Legislation

 June 16, 1993

    I congratulate the Senators from both parties who voted to break the 
filibuster of campaign finance reform. Today the Senate showed it has 
heard the American people's demand for change. I have long believed that 
we will not give the middle class the economic growth and health care 
reform it needs unless we also reform our political sys- 

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tem. Today's vote is a breakthrough in the fight to give the Government 
back to the American people.
    The stage is now set for passage of campaign finance reform 
legislation that limits spending, curbs the special interests, and opens 
up the airwaves to greater competition. Make no mistake: This 
legislation, while it necessarily contains compromises, will change 
Washington for the better.
    This must be only the first step in our effort to ensure that 
Washington works for the national interest and not narrow interests. I 
urge the Senate to pass this legislation tomorrow. I urge the House to 
act quickly on its own campaign finance reform bill. And I urge the 
Congress to move forward on lobby disclosure legislation that brings the 
activities of lobbyists into the sunlight of public scrutiny.