Committee members debated whether to provide additional funding to the House Judiciary Committee for preparing to receive the report from Kenneth Starr and the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee for further investigation of campaign fund-raising abuses. Democrats criticize these efforts as purely partisan while Republicans said that these additional funds would ensure that these investigations would be conducted fairly. The committee approved $1.3 million for the Judiciary Committee and $1.8 million for the Government Reform and Oversight Committee from a special reserve fund established last year for extra committee funding requests.