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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release October 4, 1997

TRANSCRIPT OF RADIO ACTUALITY
BY THE PRESIDENT

Recorded following the Weekly Radio Address

For five years now we have watched the bipartisan effort to reform our campaign finance laws die at the hands of a filibuster in the United States Senate. I hope this year will be different.

Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senator Russ Feingold have a strong bill that would curb the power of special interests and increase the confidence of th American people in our campaign finance system.

But this Tuesday, their opponents will try once again to kill this bipartisan bill, which has the support of every Democratic senator and a number of Republicans. They'll try it by using a poison pill amendment that will guarantee that reform dies one more time.

Make no mistake, a vote for this killer amendment is a vote to block meaningful reform.