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    Independent studies show both parties receive huge amounts of money from the lobby groups and the winners allegiance will be to multinational corporations. How can the public benefit from an election if the lobbyists are not eliminated?

    Asked by: Ernest Paviour from . Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Civil Liberties · Economy · Environment · Ethics · Foreign Policy · Globalization · Immigration · Money & Politics · Regulation · Taxes. Tags: All impacted by lobby groups.
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    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

    Well, I think that we do need to reduce the influence of lobbyist on the electoral process and on the hill, in terms of increasing transparency, prohibiting lobbyist from winning and dining members of Congress, reducing travel. Common Cause, Public Interest, other groups, other public watch dog groups, hailed it as a landmark piece of legislation. It dramatically limits the influence of lobbyist in terms of their winning and dining of legislators, no traveling with lobbyist. It sets up some very important firewalls in the process.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

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