House Passes 527 Bill

Lobby Measure Modified, but Critics Want More

By Tory Newmyer
Roll Call Staff
April 6, 2006, 12 a.m.

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.



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