House Proceeding 04-05-06 on Apr 5th, 2006 :: 0:19:11 to 0:22:44
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Speech By: Mark R. Kennedy

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Mark R. Kennedy: washington which the american public and law enforcement will simply not tolerate. . the american public will not tolerate what is about to happen here with this elimination of 527 organizations,

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Betty McCollum: transfering them into 501-c's, not allowing them to work independently of members of congress and having to do with any congressional campaign committees. in fact, this bill sharply curtails the

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Speech By: Betty McCollum

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Betty McCollum: ability of individuals and groups to associate in the pursuit of political and policy goals. and i will say to you, mr. speaker, that the unjust shield of federal policy holders, which are,

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Betty McCollum: us, the members of congress, this bill will allow them to not -- the public to not criticize or even ask for accountability because they want to outlaw those groups who engage in the type

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Betty McCollum: of public speech, the public speech that might criticize us or ask for accountability. this is what they're trying to muffle. they're trying to muffle the voices of the american people who

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Betty McCollum: spoke through 527's. they're independent groups. the majority should not be in the business of legistating for partisan gain at the expense of the american people. i will vote in opposition of

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Betty McCollum: this bill and i reserve the bounce of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. ehlers: it's my pleasure to recognize the gentleman california mr. doolittle for four

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Betty McCollum: minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. doolittle: thank you very much, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, legislative for partisan gain is all the campaign finance regulation has

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Betty McCollum: ever been about. who are we kidding? let's go back to 1974. watergate. republicans are under heavy fire. democrats took advantage of that, demanded reform and one of their reforms was the federal

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Betty McCollum: election campaign act amendments. those amendments were quite far reaching and many of them, this became the law, and when it went to the supreme court the court finally struck out many of

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Betty McCollum: them. what was left is what was the campaign finance law until we passed bcra in 2002. it's interesting, though, to talk about that because eventually the republicans made up for their disadvantage.

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Betty McCollum: and, actually, the republicans were the leader with soft money in 2002. this is very upset to the democrats who had first developed soft money, and that was a wonderful tool they could take advantage

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Betty McCollum: of, and we were a little behind the curve, and so they came up with bcra in 2002. and bcra, of course, we were going to take the money out of politics. now going back to 1974 for a

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Betty McCollum: minute, let us remember that president nixon was much criticized by the democrats when he took a campaign contribution from one wealthy individual of $2 million. fast forward to 2004, after

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Betty McCollum: bcra is passed, and at that point having taken the big money out of politics you will note with interest that one man, george sorose gave $27 million to efforts to elect john kerry, president

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Jim Ramstad: of the united states. so we went from 1974 with $2 million to richard nixon to 2004 to $27 million to john kerry. i don't think that we got the money out of politics. we just sort of reshuffled

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Speech By: Jim Ramstad