Statement in Support of a Sense of the Senate Resolution asking for Senate Consideration of Campaign Finance Reform Prior to the End of the 104th Congress July 20, 1995 Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, will the Senator yield for just a moment? Mr. HOLLINGS. I ask unanimous consent that I may yield to my colleague from Wisconsin without losing the right to the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. FEINGOLD. Thank you, Mr. President. I thank the Senator from South Carolina very much. I just want to briefly comment on what we just resolved with regard to the campaign finance reform issue. I am very gratified by the bipartisan vote, very strong vote, including 11 Members on the opposite side of the aisle, against tabling the sense-of-the-Senate resolution with regard to the issue of bringing up and considering campaign finance reform during the 104th Congress. It is one of the strongest bipartisan votes we have had on this floor during this 104th Congress. Now the majority leader has suggested that as a perfecting amendment. In addition to a number of items that were originally in the Mack substitute that did not include campaign finance reform, they have now offered to include in that list--for the first time--campaign finance reform. It is something that should be considered during the 104th Congress. Mr. President, this is precisely what we had hoped for, a vote by the Senate. I hope, given the fact that it is the majority leader's intention to support his own proposal, that we will have very, very strong bipartisan support to add that to the list. This is a shift from earlier in the day when the proposal by the Senator from Florida listed many important items but did not include--in fact excluded--campaign finance reform. So we are extremely pleased that we will have the vote, another vote in addition to the other one that we had, with the vote which was very strong, to indicate that before we leave here in the 104th Congress on a bipartisan basis we should reform this terrible system. I again thank the Senator from South Carolina for his courtesy.

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