[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/6/12
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Dec 6 09:53:00 PST 2012
Paging Trevor Potter <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45159>
Posted on December 6, 2012 9:51 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45159>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
May the Colbert Super PAC (or SHH or wherever the money went) use its
money to run ads advocating that Stephen Colbert be appointed the next
Senator from South Carolina?
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"'Voter Suppression,' Debunked" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45157>
Posted on December 6, 2012 9:49 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45157>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
James Taranto WSJ post.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324640104578161380952380820.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
One response to Taranto's point appears in Janai Nelson's excellent
draft article
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2180968>on SSRN, in
which she writes: "Despite suggestions that voter suppression tactics
can trigger a 'backlash' increase in minority voter turnout, these
tactics nonetheless violate the VRA's core principle---to ensure that
the race of a voter has no bearing on her ability to vote. Moreover, the
"backlash effect" does not negate the increased burden placed on
minorities' right to vote even if, ultimately and intermittently,
minority voters can bear it and win."
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"Gov. Nikki Haley to fill DeMint's seat by appointment"
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Posted on December 6, 2012 9:33 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45154>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Fix:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/06/gov-nikki-haley-to-fill-demints-seat-by-appointment/>
"South Carolina law dictates that resigning Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.)
seat is to be filled by an appointment --- specifically, one made by
Gov. Nikki Haley (R)."
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"How Democrats' Main Filibuster Reform Would Work"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45152>
Posted on December 6, 2012 9:31 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45152>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
TPM reports.
<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/filibuster-reform-democrats-talking.php>
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"On Rudman and the Future of Campaign Finance"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45150>
Posted on December 6, 2012 9:30 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45150>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Norm Ornstein has writtenthis /Roll Call /column.
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/on_rudman_and_the_future_of_campaign_finance-219706-1.html?pos=oopih>
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"After big U.S. Supreme Court win, Montana nonprofit suffers string
of losses" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45148>
Posted on December 6, 2012 9:29 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45148>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Center for Public Integrity reports.
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/12/05/11889/after-big-us-supreme-court-win-montana-nonprofit-suffers-string-losses>
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"Hidden Campaign Cash" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45146>
Posted on December 6, 2012 9:28 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45146>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo editorial.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hidden-campaign-cash-through-social-welfare-groups/2012/12/05/565ee1dc-3974-11e2-b01f-5f55b193f58f_story.html>
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"Five New House Members, Three Senators Fall Short on Donor
Disclosure" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45144>
Posted on December 6, 2012 9:27 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45144>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Center for Responsive Politics reports.
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/12/five-new-house-members-three-senators-fall-short-on-donor-disclosure.html>
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"Roeder on Big Data: Could it Work for Election Administration?"
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Posted on December 6, 2012 9:23 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45141>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A ChapinBlog
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2012/12/roeder_on_big_data_could_it_wo.php>.
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"Rural Law Firm Shields $262 Million in Secret Donations"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45138>
Posted on December 6, 2012 9:21 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45138>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-06/rural-law-firm-shields-262-million-in-secret-donations.html?alcmpid=>:
"About 50 miles west of Washington
<http://topics.bloomberg.com/washington/>, in a newly developed zone
between the roadside farm stands and the shops that line the Victorian
Main Street of tiny Warrenton, Virginia
<http://topics.bloomberg.com/virginia/>, sits a brick office building
that's emerged as a nexus of Republican secret money and power. The
building houses the law firm <http://topics.bloomberg.com/law-firm/> of
Holtzman Vogel Josefiak PLLC <http://www.hvjlaw.com/>, a boutique outfit
that specializes in advising organizations that want to participate in
the electoral process without disclosing who's paying their bills."
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"I Am Not Big Brother" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45135>
Posted on December 5, 2012 8:23 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45135>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ethan Roeder, data director of Obama for America, has writtenthis /NYT
/oped.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/opinion/i-am-not-big-brother.html?hp>
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"Studying the Everyday Lives of Professional Federal Lobbyists"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45132>
Posted on December 5, 2012 8:12 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45132>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Maggie McKinley has posted the following about a fascinating new project
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists>
at The Lab at Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
(reposted with permission):
Studying the Everyday Lives of Professional Federal Lobbyists
Maggie McKinley
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/people/fellows-and-scholars/all?layout=displayresults&show=current&drp_display=4¤t_mode=2&start=20>
One of the primary research areas addressed by the Edmond J. Safra
Lab's project on Institutional Corruption focuses on how the loss of
public trust in an institution caused by a belief that the
institution is corrupt serves to weaken the functioning of that
institution.^1
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link1>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The focus of the Lab is incredibly timely, as recent Gallup polls
have found that public trust in many of our nation's most
fundamental institutions---including "the medical system" and
"public schools"---has been declining steadily.^2
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link2>
My cohort of Fellows
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/people/fellows-and-scholars/all?layout=displayresults&show=current&letter=&drp_year=&drp_display=4¤t_mode=2>
study this loss of trust in a broad range of contexts: from medical
research to academic research to the various professions.
The loss in public trust, however, has been nowhere more marked than
in the institution of Congress; an institution that, for the last
three years, Gallup has ranked dead last for public trust out of
sixteen institutions---behind banks, big business, and HMOs.^3
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link3>
In a July 2012 survey, Americans ranked reduction in government
corruption as the number two issue for the next president to
prioritize in 2013---ahead of lowering the budget deficit and
confronting terrorism.^4
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link4>
This growing concern over corruption and increased loss of public
trust has paralleled a heightened public fervor over the engagement
of lobbyists in the legislative process. Not only do lobbyists rank
lower than lawyers and used-car salesmen in honesty and ethical
standards,^5
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link5>
seven out of ten Americans feel strongly that lobbyists have too
much power---topping the list over major corporations, banks, and
the federal government.^6
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link6>
Given the dependence of this institution on public support and
participation in order to function, this severe of a negative public
perception, even a perception based on misconception or stereotype,
will doubtless have real consequences for the institution over time.
However, despite this fervent and resolute public outcry deploring
the corruption of our federal government as aided and abetted by
"lobbyists," two years ago when I began to develop a research study
around this question, I encountered a puzzle: there exists little to
no empirical data on the everyday practices of federal
lobbyists---professional or otherwise---and no ethnographic research
on the everyday lives and community composition of this
profession.^7
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link7>
Moreover, there appeared to be a broad and unexplored assumption in
the general public, as well as in the academy, that the definition
of who was a "lobbyist" excluded professionals who advocated on
behalf of progressive causes---even those registered as
lobbyists---and did not include amateur citizen advocacy.
For instance, the term "lobbyist" is readily deployed to describe
the Abramoffs of the world, but many are shocked to learn that some
of the first federal lobbyists were in fact Quakers---who, on the
first day of our newly-minted Congress, set up offices in a hotel
across the street from Congress Hall in Philadelphia in order to
lobby for the abolishment of slavery.^8
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link8>
It is equally a surprise that the community of lobbyists includes
great historical figures such as Dorothy Detzer---a twenty year
peace advocate whom /The New York Times/ called "the Most Famous
Woman Lobbyist"^9
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link9>---and
modern-day heroes like Chai Feldblum who led ACLU efforts to draft
and pass the Americans with Disabilities Act.^10
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link10>
Further, discussions of the so-called "revolving door" focus on
for-profit representation and neglect the possible added value of
cause lawyers moving between state employment and the causes that
they serve.^11
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link11>
Belying this definitional ambiguity, is the fact that the term has
steep professional consequences for anyone branded as a
lobbyist---including heavy disclosure requirements, ethics
restrictions, formal and informal limitations on future employment,
and strong social stigma.^12
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link12>
Further belying this ambiguity, is the simple fact that the public
appears to stigmatize and distrust something that no one has
documented in a rigorous enough fashion to afford an informed
opinion on the subject.
From this puzzle the Language of Lobbying Project was born. I
designed the study to employ mixed-methods in order to capture what
day-to-day life looks like over the course of a calendar year, a
session, and a congress for folks employed as professional lobbyists
in D.C. In particular, the study replicates---in modified
form---the methods of my most recent research institution, the UCLA
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Center on the Everyday Lives of
Families---an interdisciplinary center designed to allow researchers
from a broad range of disciplines to work off of the same data
set---and combines for each participant: questionnaires, in-depth
semi-structured interviews, activity and spatial tracking, and
audio-recorded periods of ethnographic observation over the course
of a series of work days and professional activities identified as
typical by the participant.^13
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link13>
In addition, the study draws upon the field of language
socialization developed by Linguistic Anthropologist Elinor Ochs, to
incorporate the observation and documentation of a clinical setting
where students are trained as professional legislative advocates
both in the context of a seminar and through practical work on
behalf of real clients.^14
<http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/261-studying-the-everyday-lives-of-professional-federal-lobbyists#link14>
The language socialization component of the study is intended to
capture those moments when the ideology and practices of the
community are laid bare in the course of teaching and correction,
and to document how lobbyists are socialized to language and through
language to become competent members of the community and profession
of federal lobbyists in D.C. All too often, once we become
competent at an area of expertise, it is challenging to articulate
what it is we are doing and why; studying a practice in the context
where an individual with expertise within the field of legislative
advocacy is instructing a more junior member of the community as to
the proper procedures of the profession allows for fuller
documentation of ideal practices and their motivating ethics,
worldviews, and ideologies.
Finally, once the study was underway this fall, I decided to open
participation to a series of short semi-structured interviews with
lobbyists who fit a broad range of professional types within the
community---e.g., a range of substantive disciplines, in-house
legislative affairs, consultants, trade association representatives,
multiple political parties, and various types of clientele. I
designed these interviews to glean a topology of the community and
to refine the study to capture all of the relevant contextual
information for each participant in order to situate them within
this community.
Data collection began two short months ago, and will be underway
until mid-August of 2013, with intermittent follow-up research
continuing until the end of the 113^th Congress. What this means
for my everyday life is that I spend my days observing and recording
moments of legislative advocacy in a broad range of settings---from
coalition gatherings to pitches on the Hill to meetings with clients
and third-party vendors---as well as conducting in-depth interviews
with professional lobbyists on their ideal strategies, the
composition of their community, and their views on the profession.
Although this study is still in its most nascent stages, I have
already begun to draw the contours of the community and the
profession, including documenting novel distinctions that could
prove important in designing future research. One such example is
the distinction of "access lobbying"---a term which draws fewer than
ten relevant hits on Google, yet is ubiquitous throughout the
lobbying community---from "substantive or issue lobbying." As
described by my participants, the everyday practices of an
individual lobbyist or lobbying firm will vary based on whether the
lobbyist or firm focuses on providing the service of
"access"---namely, securing meetings with the right congressional
actors---as opposed to providing the service of substantive policy
research, drafting, and intelligence. While the distinction between
"access lobbying" and "substantive lobbying" is more of a spectrum
than a strict dichotomy---with most lobbyists and firms providing
some level of access and some level of substantive service---it
follows that any study that does not account for this distinction
could end up with skewed findings from a sample that draws too
heavily from only one side of the spectrum. These are the types of
distinctions that the Language of Lobbying Project is designed to
document.
From the culmination of these methodologies, the study seeks to
capture what it is that lobbyists do every day and to describe in a
rigorous and neutral fashion these practices to the academy, as well
as the general public. In particular, it is my hope that greater
public awareness of the techniques of legislative engagement and the
broad range of professionals in the lobbying community---including
advocates who lobby on behalf of the disempowered and voiceless, as
well as those who advocate for the health of business and
markets---might help to dispel stereotypes and to provide a deeper
understanding of the distrust and stigmatization of this profession,
legislative engagement more generally, and the damage done to the
democratic institution most vulnerable to lack of public
participation eroded by a loss of public trust---our Congress.
^1 /See, e.g/., LAWRENCE LESSIG, REPUBLIC LOST 404-43 (2011);
Piercarlo Valdesolo, et al., /Contagious Inferences in Institutional
Trust: The Costs of Transparency/ (under review); /see also/ Dennis
Thompson, ETHICS IN CONGRESS: FROM INDIVIDUAL TO INSTITUTIONAL
CORRUPTION 1 (1995).
^2 Jeffrey M. Jones,/Confidence in U.S. Public Schools at a New
Low/, GALLUP POLITICS (June 20, 2012),
http://www.gallup.com/poll/155258/confidence-public-schools-new-low.aspx.
^3 /Id/.
^4 Jeffrey M. Jones, /Americans Want Next President to Prioritize
Jobs, Corruption/, GALLUP POLITICS (July 30, 2012),
http://www.gallup.com/poll/156347/americans-next-president-prioritize-jobs-corruption.aspx
.
^5 Jeffrey M. Jones,/Record 64% Rate Honesty, Ethics of Members of
Congress Low/, GALLUP POLITICS (Dec. 12, 2011),
http://www.gallup.com/poll/151460/record-rate-honesty-ethics-members-congress-low.aspx.
^6 Lydia Saad, /Americans Decry Power of Lobbyists, Corporations,
Banks, Feds/, Gallup Politics (Apr. 12, 2011),
http://www.gallup.com/poll/147026/americans-decry-power-lobbyists-corporations-banks-feds.aspx.
^7 There are, of course, notable and valuable studies utilizing
interview methodologies to document lobbying influence and tactics.
/See, e.g/., FRANK R. BAUMGARTNER ET AL., LOBBYING AND POLICY
CHANGE: WHO WINS, WHO LOSES, AND WHY 1 (2009); ANTHONY J. NOWNES,
TOTAL LOBBYING: WHAT LOBBYISTS WANT (AND HOW THEY TRY TO GET IT) 1
(2006). However, no study to date has utilized mixed-methods to
document the language, culture, community, and everyday practice of
federal lobbyists.
^8 KENNETH R. BOWLING, THE HOUSE & SENATE IN 1790S: PETITIONING,
LOBBYING, & INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT 64-67 (2002).
^9 /See/ DOROTHY DETZER, APPOINTMENT ON THE HILL 1 (1948).
^10 /See/ Chai Feldblum, /The Art of Legislative Lawyering and the
Six Circles Theory of Advocacy/, 35 MCGEORGE L. REV. 785 (2003).
^11 Doug NeJaime, /Cause Lawyers Inside the State/, 81 FORDHAM LAW
REVIEW (forthcoming 2012), available at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2152501.
^12 Eric Lichtblau, /Tired of "Tainted" Image, Lobbyists Try
Makeover/, N.Y. TIMES, May 3, 2012, at A17.
^13 /See, e.g/., Ochs, et al., /Video Ethnography and
Ethnoarchaeological Tracking, in/ THE WORK AND FAMILY HANDBOOK
387-410 (M. Pitt Catsouphes, et al., eds. 2006).
14 /See, e.g./, Elinor Ochs, CULTURE AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT:
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION IN A SAMOAN VILLAGE
1 (1988).
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"Three donors gave six figures to Republican Jewish Coalition last
year" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45129>
Posted on December 5, 2012 8:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45129>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Center for Public Integrity reports.
<http://source2012.tumblr.com/post/37284923243/three-donors-gave-six-figures-to-republican-jewish>
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"Osaka Mayor Tweets Disapproval of Twitter Ban"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45125>
Posted on December 5, 2012 7:51 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45125>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ Japan
<http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/12/06/osaka-mayor-tweets-disapproval-of-twitter-ban/>:
"As the Twitter feeds of hundreds of Japanese politicians fell silent
earlier this week, one of the nation's most popular and outspoken
politicians--Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto--continued tweeting on
defiantly, challenging a law forbidding candidates from Internet
campaigning during a 12-day period before the election."
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"More Redistricting Ahead in Texas, Maybe Florida"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45123>
Posted on December 5, 2012 7:50 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45123>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Roll Call reports
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/more_redistricting_ahead_in_texas_maybe_florida-219712-1.html?pos=opolh>.
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"New Mexico Man Charged In Voter Fraud 'Test'"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45120>
Posted on December 5, 2012 2:34 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45120>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
TPM reports.
<http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/new-mexico-man-charged-in-voter-fraud-test>
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Center for Individual Rights Seeks to Intervene to Block NH Bailout
Request <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45115>
Posted on December 5, 2012 2:16 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45115>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This is no surprise <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44984>.
See the motion to intervene
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/motion-to-intervene.pdf>
and motion to dismiss
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/motion-to-intervene-prop-mtd.pdf>
New Hampshire's request to bail out from coverage under the preclearance
provision of the Voting Rights Act.
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"Obama bundlers eyeing embassy posts"
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Posted on December 5, 2012 2:12 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45113>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Al Kamen reports
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/obama-bundlers-eyeing-embassy-posts/2012/12/05/f2bd1a14-3ef4-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_blog.html>forWaPo.
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"Court hears challenge to Obama recess appointments"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45111>
Posted on December 5, 2012 2:11 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45111>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_RECESS_APPOINTMENTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>:
" A federal appeals court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that
considers whether President Barack Obama violated the Constitution
earlier this year when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies in his
administration."
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"Lobbyists Could See More Curbs Arising From Campaign Finance
Movement" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45107>
Posted on December 5, 2012 8:35 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45107>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Roll Call reports.
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/lobbyists_could_see_more_curbs_arising_from_campaign_finance_movement-219658-1.html?pos=hbtxt>
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