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- nonprofits engaging in grassroots lobbying soon could be forced to reveal political strategies and financial backers under an amendment attached to one of the Senate’s two pending lobbying-reform bills. The amendment, sponsored by Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.), would require grassroots lobbyists such as Lux to register with the clerk of the House and disclose their spending within 45 days after starting an initiative. Conservative nonprofit groups last month assembled a coalition called LobbySense to help bring down the Senate’s original grassroots lobbying-disclosure provision, authored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) but replaced with the Lieberman-Levin language...

From the Office of Senator John McCain comes this heroic smackdown of the other media darling in the Senate. The letter speaks for itself and it is brilliantly done. The Honorable Barack Obama United States Senate SH-713 Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Obama: I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere. When you approached me and insisted that despite your leadership’s preference to use the issue to gain a political advantage in the 2006 elections, you were...