The Push to Tighten Lobbying Rules Loses Strength
Statements like;
while the Senate did vote this week in favor of a ban on gifts and meals from lobbyists, the real fight will be over whether to limit a much more lucrative perk: private travel, and lawmakers’ use of corporate jets.
Results in responses like this:
…the new majority leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, is not keen on the travel ban
“The fervor for reform in this case was driven by a fear that a match was about to be lit to dry tinder. They were scared to death they would go back home and people would be waiting as they got off the plane with buckets of tar and bales of feathers.”
But
Congress tends to have a short attention span.
as
There has been little political fallout from the Abramoff case
so
Without a grass-roots hue and cry of the sort that pushed lawmakers to block the Dubai port deal this week, it was perhaps inevitable that the push for lobbying law changes would diminish.
and everyone will forget, and it will go back to the way it was. Lobbyist in control of Congress.