Grassroots Lobbying "Reform" Bill Fails in Senate

Senate/C-SPAN 2 | 1/18/07

[conservative in nyc]

The Senate just voted for the Bennett Amendment to strip the ill-conceived Grassroots Lobbying "Reform" provision of the Ethics Reform Bill, 55-43. The vote was pretty much party-line, with some exceptions (Landreiu, Dorgan and Bayh voted for the amendment, for example).

This provision could have had far-reaching implications by potentially forcing grassroots organizations who asked members of the public to call their Congressmen to register as lobbyists. Some articles said it could even have applied to Internet bloggers.

Unless this ill-conceived provision gets put back in by the Conference Committee, it's dead for now.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Hmmmm - but they have never responded to "grassroots" pleas before???? This makes no sense unless some of their liberal cohorts were alarmed OR unless they perceived this issue could really and truly backfire on their 2008 Presidential candidates because the stink that was being raised would NOT die down....

[Moorings]

Our troops are fighting to win freedom and democracy for people in faraway lands. At home, tyrants with a D after their names, are trying to strip away our basic freedoms for political speech and democracy.

Certain people need to be tarred and feathered for this crude attack on the founding principles of this republic. Rabid terrorists attacked the republic on 9/11 with weapons to kill. Certain politicians attack the republic with this type of legislation. Where is the massive outcry from patriots coast to coast. This is not a partisan issue, it is an attack on all Americans.

[Moorings]

Casey, Tester, Webb, McCaskill, all voted Nay. Hopefully this will be remembered and repeated over and over to the voters when these guys run for re-election.

[lkco]

Lieberman? Didn't he benefit from conservative talk radio?

[art_rocks]

I don't need to call my senators since they both voted for it. Allard and Salazar.

[Sun]

bump!

[Robert A Cook PE]

I think we need a Repubbie-Traitor-Tracking scorecard.

Start with the Gang of 14, then keep track of those repubbie's who continue to keep destroying the Republican Party.

WITHOUT the Senate failures since 2002, Bush and the party would have kept their momentum despite MSM bias.

Instead - at every policy point and appointment and turning point, a very small group of repubbies STOPPED the Republican Party cold. Dead cold. And made it worse by allowing the MSM to "bi-partisian" us (America) to death.

[Howlin]

I agree 100 percent!

[EternalVigilance]

Brownback should be in his seat doing his job.

Maybe he was at a La Raza meeting...

[beyond the sea]

notice the bias = NO mention of the DEMOCRATS who were pushing FOR restriction of free speech

The socialists/Dems/Commies will be back........ they won't quit.

[beyond the sea]

Interesting list........

[beyond the sea]

This makes no sense unless some of their liberal cohorts were alarmed OR unless they perceived this issue could really and truly backfire on their 2008 Presidential candidates because the stink that was being raised would NOT die down....

"Stink"?

I'd bet easily more than 90% of Americans have no idea what this is all about.

[darkangel82]

That puts an end to the lie that Tester, Webb and Casey are "moderate" or "conservative".

[.30Carbine]

Thank YOU LORD bump!

[SWEETSUNNYSOUTH]

I'll bet 98% don't know.

[beyond the sea]

Yes, that's more like it. I just was being conservative.

[Anti-Bubba182]

NAYs ---43

New Democratic Senators Taken from GOP

McCaskill (D-MO)
Tester (D-MT)
Brown (D-OH)
Casey (D-PA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Webb (D-VA)

Elections have consequences. It sure didn't take these new Democratic Senators any time to start acting against our freedoms.

[steve-b]

NAYs ---43
Lieberman (ID-CT)

Obviously, "ID" stands for "IDiot".

[ClancyJ]

Thank you conservatives, thank you senators. One time that you came through for us.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Would like to hear from more sources that this heinous measure was indeed taken out of this "ethics" bill. Anybody out there know for sure? Still am hearing chatter that it's still in there....