This is so funny. Leave it up to Dems----who didn't know what they were doing in the first place---to make the rules even more convoluted and weird. Of course, she made sure their liberal friends at big universities were all taken care of. I only hope that Ms. Pelosi is the first to get snared up on these stupid rules.


Lobbyists can’t accompany members on trips — except for when they can

By Jim Snyder
March 16, 2007

Lawmakers and lobbyists can still meet in exotic places — they just have to get there separately. Sometimes.

The House ethics committee has posted on its website the new rules of the road regarding travel. The House earlier this year prohibited members from accepting “officially-connected travel from a private entity that retains or employs a lobbyist.” Lobbyists also may not accompany a member on a privately paid trip on “any segment of the journey,” according to the new rules. (Private entities that do not retain a lobbyist can still pay for a member to travel).

One big loophole: Universities and other institutions of higher education can pay for a trip, and a lobbyist can come along for the ride.

Also, entities that employ a lobbyist can pay for a short trip: that is, “a single night’s lodging and meals.” But that’s not a hard-and-fast rule either. A member may stay an extra night if the ethics committee determines that it is “practically required” for said member to participate in the one-day event."

http://thehill.com/business--lobby/l...007-03-16.html

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boy she really has it in for lobbyists doesn't she? i'd say she is really balancing the power of lobbyists out though. compare this bill to the bill she initiated to deem any Christian organization exercising freedom of speech as a lobbying organization. shes covering all the bases isn't she?

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And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

It starts to get complicated like that when one tries to make it look like they are doing something when they are not.

I don't believe there is a single senator in Congress who really wants lobby reform.

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"You have found the secret message. Do you have too much time on your hands? ...Let it go."

Exactly. What Pelosi and other Dem leaders wanted was.......reform FOR Republicans' lobbyists; not theirs, of course.

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

I can't go so far as to agree with you about this. Anyone with half a brain knows they could never pull off such a plan. You may think the dems are dumb, but no one is that dumb.

No. What they always wanted was to pass a bill with lots of loopholes and exceptions just to take credit for it and hope that the average American isn't paying enough attention to realize that little to nothing has actually changed, and we probably will.

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"You have found the secret message. Do you have too much time on your hands? ...Let it go."

Is anybody else getting deja vu from this?

CFR

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Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked... in the head... with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. It's a dumb question... skip it.

I agree with you totally. ALL of what the Dems are doing now is for "show."

In the same way, they think they'll fool their dumb base with the Iraq vote that they KNOW will not pass into law.

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

YEP!!

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007