Senate Does Right by Grass-roots Lobbyists

• By Stephen M. Hoersting
• Special to Roll Call
• Jan. 29, 2007, Midnight

Roll Call praises the Senate’s recent work on ethics and lobbying reform with one exception (Editorial, “So Far, So Good,” Jan. 24). It characterizes as a “major deficiency” in the bill the “exclusion of a provision to require disclosure of ‘astroturf’ lobbying — the generation of mass communications to Members from special interests often joined together in coalitions euphemistically named to conceal their true aims.”