On March 27th President Bush signed the federal campaign finance reform bill that will ban soft money donations to political candidates and bar unions, corporations and some independent groups from broadcasting certain types of political advertising within 60 days of an election or 30 days of a primary. Larry Mantle discusses the new law with the president of Common Cause, Scott Harshbarger, who supports the legislation and a scholar, John Samples, from the Cato Institute who is critical of it.
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