Campaign financing goes to the heart of the value and integrity of our political system.
At a time when there is a desperate need for principled leadership in this country, Senator Lott and a minority of Senators let the country down. Already in this election cycle, special interests are flooding the system with record amounts of soft money. If Congress fails to clean up the corrupt campaign finance system, the 2000 election will make the scandals and abuses in the 1996 election look like child's play. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the death of campaign finance reform has been greatly exaggerated - again and again. Securing passage of the Shays-Meehan campaign finance bill in the House of Representatives required fighting many battles before winning the war.