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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Who could blame hundreds of Members of Congress for joining with a colleague and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in co-sponsoring legislation aimed at promoting breast cancer education? The problem, according to leading breast cancer scientists and advocacy groups, is the bill would do more harm than good. Read Full Article

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