Senate Does Right by Grass-roots Lobbyists

By Stephen M. Hoersting
Special to Roll Call
Jan. 29, 2007, 12 a.m.

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.”



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