Citizens Have a Right to Know About Lobbying Efforts
Special to Roll Call
In a May 10 Roll Call Guest Observer (“Citizens Don’t Need ‘Protection’ From Lobbying”), Douglas Johnson and Caroline Fredrickson posed a question: “Do ordinary citizens need to be protected from groups that may urge them to contact their elected Representatives in Congress about some pending bill?” The authors were referring to H.R. 2093, the latest proposal to shine a light on who is behind big-money, federal grass-roots lobbying expenditures.
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Stier: Detecting a Bad Breast Cancer Bill
July 1, 11:28 a.m.
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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