MOLLY HOOPER:

Yes, sponsors. And it's actually a loophole that the parties have found where, you know, you go to these conventions every four years, show up in a city and there's a host committee. And that host committee can take unlimited amount of money from corporate sponsors. The law was originally written so that corporations could not essentially buy political parties. And so you see members up on Capitol Hill saying 'you know these events, number one, not a lot of news is made at these events — they're four day pep rallies. Why are we using taxpayer dollars to pay for it?' It won't be very difficult for them to raise the money to make up for the difference. And so originally this bill was going to just give the money right back to the Treasury, but House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said 'wait a second, we can use this money for pediatric research.'