Letter to the Federal Election Commission seeking to end the soft money system in domestic politics.(Transcript)

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents | June 9, 1997 | Copyright

June 4, 1997

To the Members of the Federal Election Commission:

I am writing to you, pursuant to 11 CFR Part 200, to request that you take action under your existing statutory authority to ban "soft money" and end the system under which both political parties compete to raise unlimited sums from individuals, labor unions, and corporations.

The rules governing our system of financing Federal election campaigns are sorely out of date. Enacted more than two decades ago when election campaigns were much less expensive, the rules have been overtaken by ...

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