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The Blog for Monday, June 13, 2005

Those Pesky Rules ...

    allow Congressmen
    to accept trips from private organizations to learn about particular issues, but they say lobbyists or firms that lobby on behalf of outside clients cannot pay for trips. However, lobbyists can go along on trips paid for by their parent organizations, and they can arrange trips paid for by their clients.

    "It makes little difference to the member (of Congress) as long as the trip is paid for and it makes little difference to the client as long as the lobbyist can go along," Noble said.

    As a result of such rules, at least a dozen trips taken by local congressmen were sponsored by organizations that are required to file lobbying expense reports with Congress, and all such trips are permissible.

    Half a dozen trips by Rep. Mark Foley, R-Jupiter, involved organizations that reported lobbying expenses, including the American Resort Development Association, Recording Industry Association of America, National Association of Realtors, Mortgage Bankers Association, American Sugar Alliance, Salem Law Group, Allergan and Clark Consulting Co.
    "Rules fail to stop lobbyists' influence".

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