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Article: No Outcry About Lobby Scandal, Lawmakers Say; Republicans See Little Risk In Pushing Modest Ethics Bill
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- The Washington Post
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- April 27, 2006
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The scandal surrounding disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been
a Washington obsession for months, but Republican lawmakers who
returned from a two-week recess this week said they felt free to pass
a relatively tepid ethics bill because their constituents rarely
mention the issue.
The House is scheduled to vote today on ethics legislation to
increase lobbyists' disclosures and require lawmakers to own up to
the earmarks, or narrow projects, that they insert into
appropriations bills. But the measure would not restrict the gifts or
meals provided by lobbyists as House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-
Ill.) had proposed in January, nor would it expand the number of
enforcers of lobbying rules ...