ALERT: Senate passes ethics legislation (Update at #30)

AP ^ | 1/18/07 | AP

[broncoholic]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has passed Democratic-driven ethics reform legislation.

[armymarinemom]

Oh brother.

[conservative in nyc]

WITHOUT the Grassroots Lobbying "Reform" abomination. The Senate voted 55-43 to strip those odious restrictions on free speech from the bill. All Republicans voted yes. Only 7 Democrats joined them.

43 Democrats would rather not hear from the pesky people who pay their salaries.

[Enosh]

Oh brother.

Exactly.

The President has a pen too.

[NonValueAdded]

Then that should read "ethics" not ethics.

[conservative in nyc]

No need to veto. See post 3. The really bad stuff was taken out before the vote, with little thanks to the Democrats.

[do the dhue]

What exactly is in this bill?

[mware]

Is this the bill regarding having to report to congress if you have over 500 people in a network reporting on what Congress is doing????

[armymarinemom]

WITHOUT the Grassroots Lobbying "Reform" abomination.

Thank You!

[conservative in nyc]

Is this the bill regarding having to report to congress if you have over 500 people in a network reporting on what Congress is doing????

No. Unless there were other amendments, the bill is everything in the proposed ethics reform bill EXCEPT that.

[muawiyah]

Yeah, and when the vote was taken on stripping that abomination of desolation from the bill only 7 Democrats were patriotic enough, and pro-American enough, to vote to strip it out.

The rest of the Democrats proved themselves once again to be little more than totalitarian minded apparatchiks who do not deserve to be in our country, and certainly not in the Senate.

[mware]

Think I will pop over to house.gov and check out the details of the orignial bill as proposed.

[NormsRevenge]

The rest of the Democrats proved themselves once again to be little more than totalitarian minded apparatchiks who do not deserve to be in our country, and certainly not in the Senate.

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Stalin would be proud ,, way to go, demsociacRats.

[mware]

Sorry that should have been senate, but I just checked and they do have bills from the senate there too.

[conservative in nyc]

S. 1: To provide greater transparency in the legislative process.

Strike Section 220, since it was removed. The rest of the bill wasn't very controversial.

[AZRepublican]

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[GretchenM]

What flashed before me was bubba j. Arkansas threatening the nation to have the most ethical administration EVER.

[gondramB]

>>WITHOUT the Grassroots Lobbying "Reform" abomination. The Senate voted 55-43 to strip those odious restrictions on free speech from the bill. All Republicans voted yes. Only 7 Democrats joined them.

43 Democrats would rather not hear from the pesky people who pay their salaries.<<

ALL REPUBLICANS voted to strip the free speech restrictions? What about McCain, wasn't that his baby?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Bush should still veto it...

[mware]

The grassroots lobbying reform was the bit I was concerned about.