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Friday, January 19, 2007
Senate Ethics Bill Amendment Removes Restriction on Grassroots Groups
Grassroots groups are delighted that the Senate voted 55-43 for an amendment offered by Senator Robert Bennett, a Utah Republican, to strip the so-called "grassroots lobbying" provision (Section 220) from the ethics reform bill S. 1. The provisions it fixed were so onerous that even the pro-abortion American Civil Liberties Union sided with pro-life groups in opposition to them.
Leaders in the House of Representatives are expected to propose their own version of an omnibus "ethics" bill, which may contain the same problematic language ...Read More Tags:free speech, grassroots, lobbyingTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
Arkansas Senators Voted to Restrict Grassroots Free Speech Almost all Democrats voted to restrict grassroots groups and free speech by keeping Section 220 in the bill including Arkansas Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor. http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com/2007/01/arkansas-senators-voted-to-restrict.html
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Grassroots groups are delighted that the Senate voted 55-43 for an amendment offered by Senator Robert Bennett, a Utah Republican, to strip the so-called "grassroots lobbying" provision (Section 220) from the ethics reform bill S. 1. The provisions it fixed were so onerous that even the pro-abortion American Civil Liberties Union sided with pro-life groups in opposition to them.
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Arkansas Senators Voted to Restrict Grassroots Free Speech
Almost all Democrats voted to restrict grassroots groups and free speech by keeping Section 220 in the bill including Arkansas Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor.
http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com/2007/01/arkansas-senators-voted-to-restrict.html
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