They work on governors races. These are truly national parties. To totally eliminate soft money, the definition of soft money being anything that isn t hard money, would require an entire federalization of all of American elections making the FEC the size of the Veterans Administration regulating all candidates in all elections throughout America. Let me get Congressman Meehan back in this. Respond to that, that there should be a difference between how much you can give to an individual versus the parties which need, I think what Sen. McConnell is saying, they need lots of money, and that the only way to really raise it is through these larger contributions.
Parties can raise money.
We can up the hard dollar limits in order to deal with the parties, but we shouldn t have the system where soft money is legal. Let me make another observation here. This soft money versus union things, we re talking about apples and oranges. Let s deal with soft money. Republicans have traditionally raised significantly more soft money than Democrats have.