THAT’S WHAT I CALL REFORM

Speaker Dennis Hastert’s reform proposal would finally
ban corrupt lobbying of Congress excerpt for what?

(A) Members could still get gifts from family members

(B) Members could still share a cab with a lobbyist

(C) Members could still accept small gifts at
Christmas

(D) Members could accept campaign contributions, but
not personal gifts.

(E) All members of Congress and their staffs members
of Congress and their staffs could still travel the
world on private jets and eat on a lobbyist's account
at the priciest restaurants in Washington.

Answer: (E)

The only limitation would be that whenever a lobbyist
pays the bill, he or she must also hand the lawmaker a
campaign contribution. Then the transaction would be
legal.

"That's a big hole if they don't address campaign
finance," said Joel Jankowsky, the lobbying chief of
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.


You think?

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