House Passes 527 Bill

Lobby Measure Modified, but Critics Want More

• By Tory Newmyer
• Roll Call Staff
• April 6, 2006, Midnight

Just two days after former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) announced that he would resign his seat amid a widening corruption probe, House Republicans passed one of their party’s key political priorities: limiting the fundraising ability of the independent nonprofit groups called 527s.