Dick Durbin Quotes
We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.
Durbin, Dick. "Statement on Campaign Finance Reform." Congressional Record, Government Publishing Office, 16 July 2014.
Congress passes laws to accommodate so many different vested interest groups that the different clauses begin to contradict and modify others to the point that no one can understand them. In large part this is because no one person drafted the legislation and so few members of Congress actually read the legislation on which they vote.
Colbert actually formed his own Super PAC and funded it with his own money.
At the time this was a very widely held, bipartisan view. See {634818} . Given statements like this, TR if he were alive today would never be able to get the Republican Nomination for President; nor could he obtain the Democratic Nomination because of his view on the military, expansionism, defense spending and war.
Most of the Super PAC money was, and is, spent on TV ads—usually negative, attack ads. The network profits that year rose by $180 million mostly due to the political advertising. It was estimated that in 2012, there were $9.8 Billion spent on political advertising at all levels. What is particularly important about this quotation is that it shows that corporations do not make campaign contributions to increase good government in America. They not only think their political “investments” can return profits to them, but in this case, the CEO acknowledges that the corporation had already received much benefit.
Richard Joseph Durbin is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Illinois, a seat he was first elected to in 1996. He has been Senate Democratic Whip since 2005, the second-highest position in the Democratic leadership in the Senate, and Senate Majority Whip since 2021. He chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee.
