Article: SENATE REPUBLICANS TRYING - AGAIN - TO KILL LOBBYING, ETHICS REFORM BILL

Public Citizen issued the following news release:

One day before former Republican Rep. Bob Ney is sentenced to prison for corruption, Senate Republicans en masse voted late Wednesday night to kill the lobbying and ethics reform bill (S. 1). Public Citizen condemns the Senate Republican caucus for once again undermining legislation to bring civility and ethics back to Capitol Hill and strongly urges the Republican caucus to heed the public's will, withdraw its tactical poison pill from the Senate lobbying and ethics reform package and begin to clean up Washington.

"The American public is disgusted with corruption, scandal and Congress itself," said Joan Claybrook, president of Public ...

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