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paineinthearse

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Thu Oct-06-05 07:37 AM
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Democrats Seek Lobbying Curbs

Democrats Seek Lobbying Curbs
By Mark Preston
Roll Call Staff
October 6, 2005

Democratic Senators will call today for tighter restrictions on government employees who become lobbyists, recommending the revocation of floor privileges for former Senators working on K Street and a lengthening of the current one-year “cooling off” period.

more at http://www.rollcall.com/pub/51_33/news/10776-1.html

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texpatriot2004

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Thu Oct-06-05 07:50 AM
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1. Thank you Dems. Good idea. n/t

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mzteris

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Thu Oct-06-05 07:51 AM
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2. should be more like 10 years

cooling off - or lifetime ban?

Seriously, no less that FIVE years, imo.

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Double T

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Thu Oct-06-05 08:39 AM
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4. Lifetime Ban!!!

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DiverDave

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Thu Oct-06-05 08:10 AM
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3. Take it further

no wireless devices AT ALL.

Who needs to be on the floor, when you can just send instuctions to your whore via a Blackberry device?

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shraby

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Thu Oct-06-05 09:27 AM
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5. Ban all lobbying by business.

That's the only way to keep the congress critters straight.

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brentspeak

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Thu Oct-06-05 09:56 AM
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6. Best way for the Democrats to regain the majority in Congress:

Become the party that advocates banning all special interest money on Capitol Hill. How many people are going to say to themselves, "I won't vote for the Democrats - they won't take special interest money"? This is only a winning issue.

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Arkana

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Thu Oct-06-05 09:57 AM
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7. That probably came from the Jack Abramoff thing, and it's a sound

idea. Good for them.

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