Ethics: 2007 NewsNov. 26, 2007 - Reform Groups Call on House Clerk and Senate Secretary to Implement New Lobbying Law Consistent with the Language and Purpose of the Statute Reform groups sent a letter last week urging House Clerk Lorraine C. Miller and Secretary of the Senate Nancy Erickson to implement the new lobbying disclosure reforms in the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act (HLOGA) "in a manner that is consistent with the language and purpose of the statute, and with the intent of Congress to provide the public with broad disclosure of the money being raised and spent by lobbyists to influence Congress."
To read the full press release, click here.
Aug. 30, 2007 -- Ethics Committee Silence Re: Sen. Craig: Statement of Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center Policy Director Ethical lapses are neither a Democratic nor a Republican problem, nor are they a House or a Senate problem - they are a congressional problem.
To read the full press release, click here.
June 25, 2007 -- Reform Groups Oppose Ethics Enforcement Task Force Proposal as Not Effectively Addressing Ethics Enforcement Problems in House In a letter sent today to House members, reform groups expressed their opposition to a proposal reportedly being considered by the House special ethics enforcement task force, which the reform groups do not believe will effectively address the ethics enforcement problems in the House.
The organizations include the Campaign Legal Center, the Committee for Economic Development, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters and Public Citizen. To read the full letter, click here.
June 20, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge Pelosi and Reid to Ensure Strong ''Bundling'' and Fundraising Disclosure Provisions Are Included in Conference Report Reform groups sent a letter today to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which urged the Speaker to ''ensure that the final conference report on lobbying reform legislation includes strong and effective provisions to provide for the disclosure by lobbyists of the fundraising events they hold and the contributions they 'bundle' for Members.'' To read the full letter, click here.
May 24, 2007 -- Lobbying Reform Bill: Statement of Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center Policy Director We are pleased to see that after getting bogged down in the swamp that is Washington both the lobbying reform bill and the bundling disclosure bill are moving forward. The question now is what will emerge from the House-Senate conference.
To read the full statement, click here.
May 24, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge House Members to Vote for Van Hollen-Meehan Bundling Disclosure Bill Reform groups sent a letter today urging House members ''to vote for the legislation sponsored by Representatives Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Marty Meehan (D-MA) to require lobbyists to disclose the amount of bundled contributions they provide for Members and others.''
To read the full letter, click here.
May 22, 2007 -- Reform Groups and CED Urge House Members to Vote for Rule on Lobbying Reform Bill Reform groups and the Committee for Economic Development sent a letter today to House members urging them to ''to vote for the rule on lobbying disclosure reform legislation and for the amendment to the legislation to be offered by Representatives Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Marty Meehan (D-MA) to require lobbyists to disclose the amount of bundled contributions they provide for Members and others.''
To read the full letter, click here.
May 14, 2007 -- Reform Groups and CED Outline Essential Elements for Effective OPI Reform groups and the Committee for Economic Development sent a letter today to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), expressing support for the establishment of a nonpartisan and professional Office of Public Integrity (OPI) and outlining elements that the groups believe are absolutely essential for an effective and publicly credible OPI.
To read the full letter, click here.
May 2, 2007 -- Reform Groups and CED Urge House Members to Support Strong Lobbying Reform Legislation Reform groups and the Committee for Economic Development sent a letter today urging House members to support strong and effective lobbying reform legislation that includes the essential lobbying reform provisions set forth in the letter, when the House considers shortly its lobbying reform legislation. To view the letter, click here.
Apr. 24, 2007 -- House Freshman Call for Tougher Ethics Enforcement: Statement of Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center Policy Director Recognizing the key role that congressional corruption played in the historic Democratic takeover in the November elections, 27 House freshmen wrote today to Chairman Michael Capuano (D-MA) and the Special Task Force on Ethics urging them to recommend changes that will build increased independence and professionalism into the ethics enforcement process.
To read the full letter, click here.
Apr. 19, 2007 -- Testimony of Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center Policy Director, Before the House Special Task Force on Ethics Below is the full April 19th testimony of Campaign Legal Center Policy Director Meredith McGehee before the House Special Task Force on Ethics:
Mr. Chairman , Members of the Task Force, thank you for this opportunity to provide our views on the House ethics process. My name is Meredith McGehee and I am the Policy Director of the Campaign Legal Center. The Legal Center is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 2002 which works in the areas of campaign finance and elections, political communication and government ethics. The Legal Center offers nonpartisan analyses of issues and represents the public interest in administrative, legislative and legal proceedings.
To read the full testimony, click here.
Apr. 16, 2007 -- Reform Groups Oppose Boehner Proposal to Establish Task Force to Review New Ethics Rules Enclosed for your information is a letter reform groups sent today to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging the Speaker to oppose a call by House Minority Leader John Boehner to establish a bipartisan task force to review the new ethics rules, which the House adopted in January by a vote of 430 to 1.
The reform groups include the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters, Public Citizen and U.S. PIRG.
According to the letter, ''On March 29, 2007, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) reportedly sent you a letter calling for the creation of a bipartisan task force to review and clarify the House's 'hopelessly broken' ethics rules.''
To read the full letter, click here.
Mar. 7, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge House Members to Support Essential Lobbying Reform Provisions Reform groups sent a letter today urging House members to support strong, comprehensive lobbying reform legislation and to vote for the essential lobbying reform provisions set forth in the letter, when the House considers its lobbying reform legislation.
The reform groups include the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters, Public Citizen and U.S. PIRG.
According to the letter, ''The House is expected shortly to consider lobbying reform legislation.''
The letter states, ''This is the next essential step the House needs to take to respond to the corruption, ethics and lobbying scandals in the last Congress that deeply concerned the American people. It follows the landmark ethics rules reforms passed by the House in January.''
The letter adds, ''In passing strong lobbying reform legislation earlier this year, the Senate has provided a minimum benchmark for the House to meet in acting on this important issue. There simply is no basis for the House to pass weaker lobbying reforms than the Senate has adopted. In addition, there are important areas where stronger reform measures than passed by the Senate are required.''
According to the reform groups, the lobbying legislation needs to include essential reform provisions to:
- Require disclosure by lobbyists and lobbying organizations of the total amount of contributions they ''bundle'' for a member of Congress or other recipient;
- Require disclosure by retained lobbying firms of the total amount they spend on behalf of a client on paid communications campaigns to influence the general public to lobby Congress;
- Strengthen the revolving door restrictions; and
- Prohibit lobbyists and lobbying organizations from funding parties at national conventions to ''honor'' Members.
According to the letter, ''The disclosure by lobbyists and lobbying organizations of the amount of contributions they collect or arrange ('bundle') for a candidate is a defining issue for lobbying reform. The House action on this critical issue will tell the country whether Members are serious about reforming the nation's lobbying laws.''
The letter states, ''Requiring lobbyists to disclose these 'bundled' contributions goes to the heart of the public's right to know about the efforts being made by lobbyists and lobbying organizations to influence congressional decisions. Absent such disclosure, a huge loophole exists in the lobbying disclosure laws.''
The letter adds, ''The Senate-passed lobbying reform bill contains a strong and effective 'bundling' disclosure provision that is also contained in companion legislation introduced in the House by Representatives Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Marty Meehan (D-MA).''
The letter continues, ''Our organizations urge you to support and vote for this provision and to oppose any efforts to weaken or undermine the provision.''
The letter further states, ''Our organizations also urge you to support a critical provision that would require lobbying firms to disclose the total amount they spend on behalf of a client to conduct paid communication campaigns to influence the general public to lobby Congress.''
According to the letter, ''This new provision being proposed in the House is fundamentally different and far narrower than the 'Astroturf' lobbying disclosure provision rejected in the Senate earlier this year by a vote of 55 to 43.''
The letter adds, '' The House provision only applies to lobbying firms retained by a client, and only covers paid communications campaigns by the lobbying firms to influence the general public to lobby Congress. The provision expressly states that it does not apply to any person or entity other than a retained lobbying firm. ''
The letter continues, ''Lobbying firms currently report the total amounts they receive from clients to conduct direct lobbying campaigns on Capitol Hill. The new provision would require lobbying firms also to disclose the total amounts they receive from clients to conduct expensive media and other paid communications campaigns to influence the general public to lobby Congress.''
According to the letter, ''Former members of Congress working as Washington lobbyists used to be the exception. Now it is a regular practice, with some 200 former Members reportedly lobbying Congress.''
The letter adds, ''According to a report by Public Citizen, during the period from 1998 to 2004, 86 of 198 members of Congress who left Congress, or 43 percent of the Members, became lobbyists.''
The letter states, ''The current rules establish a one-year period in which former Members, senior executive branch officials and senior congressional staff cannot lobby their former colleagues. The breadth of former colleagues who cannot be lobbied during this period varies depending on the group of former officials involved.''
The letter adds, ''Our organizations urge you to support increasing the one-year revolving door ban to two years for all officials covered by the restriction, as the Senate-passed bill does.''
The letter also points out that while current revolving door restrictions prohibit former members of Congress ''from having direct lobbying contacts with Congress for pay for one year after they leave their jobs, they allow Members to engage in other lobbying activities to influence Congress for pay during this period, including planning and directing lobbying campaigns, and participating in lobbying strategy sessions.''
The letter states, ''Our organizations urge you to support a provision to close this serious loophole by extending the revolving door ban to cover lobbying activities, not just lobbying contacts, by former Members to influence Congress, as the Senate-passed bill does.''
According to the letter, ''Lobbyists and lobbying organizations are paying for lavish parties at the national conventions to 'honor' a Member or members of Congress. This includes parties to 'honor' members of a committee and members of a state delegation.''
The letter continues, ''These parties often involve lobbyists and lobbying organizations paying for an expensive party to 'honor' a Committee Chairman or the members of a powerful Committee with jurisdiction over legislation being sought by the lobbyist or lobbying organization.''
The letter states that this major loophole in the rules restricting gifts, ''means that a lobbyist or lobbying organization is prohibited by the gift ban from paying for a meal for a Member but the same lobbyist or lobbying organization can pay $25,000, $50,000 or more to throw an expensive party at a national convention for the same Member.''
The letter adds, ''Our organizations urge you to support a provision, similar to the provision in the Senate-passed bill, which would prohibit lobbyists and lobbying organizations from paying for parties to 'honor' Members at the national conventions.''
Feb. 23, 2007 -- Reform Groups Send Letter to House Members Urging Them to Support Legislation Slowing "Revolving Door" Below is a letter reform groups sent today urging U.S. House members to support legislation slowing the "revolving door" when former public officials immediately take lobbying jobs after leaving public service.
The reform groups include the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters, Public Citizen and U.S. PIRG.
According to the letter, current revolving door abuses should be addressed by incorporating in House legislation restrictions similar to those contained in the U.S. Senate lobbying and ethics reform bill (S. 1). These provisions:
- Extend the "cooling off period" from one year to two during which former senior officials must refrain from lobbying after leaving public service; and, even more importantly,
- Include "lobbying activities" - defined narrowly under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) as paid activity intended to facilitate a lobbying contact - as part of lobbying prohibited during the cooling off period.
The letter notes that Congress recognized that public officials could be unduly influenced by "implicit or explicit promises of future employment, as well as problems that arise when former public officials exploit their connections developed during public service," and responded by imposing a one-year ban on former officials making direct lobbying contacts after leaving public service in the Ethics Reform Act of 1989.
The letter states, "But the spirit of the law has not been met….The greatest loophole in the law is that former officials can be hired by lobbying firms immediately after leaving office to plan, strategize and oversee lobbying campaigns. They are only prevented from making 'lobbying contacts' - direct contacts such as picking up the telephone and calling their former colleagues."
The letter adds, "It is essential to include 'lobbying activities' as defined by LDA - work for compensation specifically intended at the time it is being done to facilitate a lobbying contact - in the scope of 'lobbying' that is prohibited during the cooling off period."
The letter concludes: "We urge the House to join the Senate in doing what the 1989 ethics law intended: prevent very senior public officials from exploiting their public service by becoming lobbyists for an appropriate period of time after leaving office."
February 23, 2007
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
RE: Slow the "Revolving Door"
Dear Representative:
The lobbying provisions of lobbying and ethics reform legislation - approved by the Senate by a vote of 96-to-2 on January 18 - are now under consideration by the House of Representatives.
Our organizations strongly urge you to address "revolving door" abuses by incorporating in House legislation restrictions similar to those contained in the Senate bill on former senior public officials taking jobs as lobbyists. These provisions:
- Extend the "cooling off period" from one year to two during which former senior officials must refrain from lobbying after leaving public service; and, even more importantly,
- Include "lobbying activities" - defined narrowly under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) as paid activity intended to facilitate a lobbying contact - as part of lobbying prohibited during the cooling off period.
In the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, Congress recognized that public officials might be influenced by implicit or explicit promises of future employment, as well as the problems that arise when former public officials exploit their connections developed during public service to influence government action for their new private employers. That legislation barred former Members, senior congressional staff and senior executive branch officials from lobbying their former colleagues for one year after leaving office.
But the spirit of the law has not been met.
Today, the revolving door is spinning out of control. Between 1998 and 2004, almost half of Members of Congress who left office moved into lobbying careers on K Street. After the last administration, about a quarter of senior cabinet officials also moved into private employment as lobbyists.
The greatest loophole in the law is that former officials can be hired by lobbying firms immediately after leaving office to plan, strategize and oversee lobbying campaigns. They are only prevented from making "lobbying contacts" - direct contacts such as picking up the telephone and calling their former colleagues.
It is essential to include "lobbying activities" as defined by LDA - work for compensation specifically intended at the time it is being done to facilitate a lobbying contact - in the scope of "lobbying" that is prohibited during the cooling off period.
Former public officials can certainly join law firms or public relations firms, write books, give speeches, and pursue all other legitimate career opportunities. But it is important to the public interest that they refrain from working as paid lobbyists and engaging in lobbying activities during the cooling off period. Otherwise the revolving door, which raises so much public suspicion about conflicts of interest, will not slow.
We urge the House to join the Senate in doing what the 1989 ethics law intended: prevent very senior public officials from exploiting their public service by becoming lobbyists for an appropriate period of time after leaving office.
Campaign Legal Center
Common Cause
Democracy 21
League of Women Voters
Public Citizen
U.S. PIRG
Feb. 6, 2007 -- Reform Groups Send Letter to Ethics Taskforce Chairman Capuano Urging Support for Office of Public Integrity Representative Michael Capuano
1530 Longworth House Office Building
Washington , DC 20515
Dear Representative Capuano,
Our organizations believe it is essential to establish a professional, nonpartisan enforcement entity to help enforce the House ethics rules. We believe that such an ethics enforcement entity is the lynchpin for all other ethics reforms adopted in this Congress.
Enclosed for your information is a summary of the elements that our organizations believe are essential to establishing an effective and publicly credible new ethics enforcement entity. As a member of the Special Task Force on Ethics Enforcement, we urge you to support the creation of such an enforcement entity.
We look forward to the opportunity to work with you on this critical ethics issue.
Campaign Legal Center
Common Cause
Democracy 21
League of Women Voters
Public Citizen
U.S. PIRG
Establishing an Office of Public Integrity to Help Enforce
the House Ethics Rules
It is essential to establish a nonpartisan, professional enforcement entity with real authority to help enforce the House ethics rules. This reform is the lynchpin for all other ethics reforms. An Office of Public Integrity should be created with the following essential elements:
- The Office of Public Integrity should have the authority to receive and investigate outside complaints and to initiate and conduct investigations on its own authority, where the Office determines that a matter requires investigation.
The Office should have the powers necessary to conduct investigations, including the authority to administer oaths, and to issue and enforce subpoenas. The subject of any investigation should have the opportunity to present information to the Office to show that no violation has occurred. The Office should have the authority to dismiss frivolous complaints expeditiously and to impose sanctions for filing such complaints.
- The Office of Public Integrity should be headed by a Director or by a three-member panel, should have a professional, impartial staff and should have the resources necessary to carry out the Office's responsibilities.
If the Office is headed by a Director, the Director should be chosen jointly by the Speaker and Minority Leader. If the Office is headed by a panel, the panel should consist of three members, with one member chosen by the Speaker, one member chosen by the Minority Leader and the third member chosen by the other two members.
- The Office's Director or panel members should be individuals of distinction with experience as judges, ethics officials or in law enforcement, should not be Members or former Members, should have term appointments and should be subject to removal only for cause by joint agreement of the Speaker and Minority Leader.
- The Office should have the authority to present a case to the House Ethics Committee for its decision, based on the same standard that is currently used to determine when a case should be presented to the Committee. The Ethics Committee would be responsible for determining if ethics rules have been violated and what, if any, sanctions should be imposed or recommended to the House. A public report should be issued on the disposition of a case by the Ethics Committee. The Office should have the authority to recommend sanctions to the Committee, if the Committee determines an ethics violation had occurred.
- The Office should receive, monitor and oversee financial disclosure, travel and other reports filed by Members and staff, to ensure that reports are properly filed and to make the reports public in a timely and easily accessible manner. The Office should have the same authority for lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act.
This list of essential elements for an Office of Public Integrity is supported by the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters, Public Citizen and U.S. PIRG.
Feb. 5, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge House Members to Support Disclosure by Lobbyists of Bundled Contributions Reform groups sent a letter today to House Members urging them to support in lobbying reform legislation a requirement that lobbyists disclose the contributions they ''bundle'' for members of Congress and other recipients.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 23, 2007 -- "Bundling" Legislation Even More Vital as Candidates Abandon Public Financing: Statement of Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center Policy Director The Campaign Legal Center commends Representatives Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Marty Meehan (D-MA) for introducing legislation today to ensure disclosure of "bundling" of campaign contributions by registered lobbyists.
To read the full statement, click here.
Jan. 23, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge Members to Co-Sponsor and Vote for Van Hollen-Meehan ''Bundling'' Reform groups sent a letter to House members urging them to co-sponsor and vote for the legislation, to be introduced today by Representatives Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Marty Meehan (D-MA), to require lobbyists to disclose ''bundled'' contributions.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 19, 2007 -- Senate Passage of Lobbying & Ethics Reform Bill: Statement of Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center Policy Director We are both relieved and pleased that the ethics and lobbying reform bill passed the Senate tonight. Clearly the American people are not willing to accept the status quo and the message they delivered on Election Day was heard by their elected officials.
To read the full statement, click here.
Jan. 18, 2007 -- Senate Attempt to Derail Lobbying & Ethics Reform: Statement of Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center Yesterday Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) threw a grenade in the wheelhouse of lobbying and ethics reform. Joined by all but two of his fellow Republicans in the Senate, the Minority Leader led a cynical effort to kill legislation demanded by voters in November to clean up Washington.
To read the full statement, click here.
Jan. 18, 2007 -- Statement by Reform Groups on Senate Vote Yesterday to Block Ethics and Lobbying Reform Legislation No one should be confused about what happened yesterday in the Senate on ethics and lobbying reform legislation.
Forty-five Republican Senators voted to obstruct and kill the strongest ethics and lobbying reform legislation since the Watergate scandals three decades ago.
To read the full statement, click here.
Jan. 17, 2007 -- Position of Reform Groups on Key Amendments to Senate Ethics and Lobbying Reform Legislation Reform groups sent a chart to Senators summarizing their position on key pending amendments to the Senate ethics and lobbying reform legislation.
To see the positions of the reform groups, click here.
Jan. 17, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge Senators to Vote Against Bennett Amendment to Strike "Astroturf" Disclosure Provision Reform groups urged Senators today to vote against the Bennett amendment which would strike a critical disclosure provision from the Reid-McConnell substitute that requires professional ''Astroturf'' lobbying firms to report the amounts they spend to conduct ''Astroturf'' lobbying campaigns.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 17, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge Senators to Vote for Feingold Amendment Reform groups sent a letter today urging Senators to vote today for the Feingold amendment to the Reid-McConnell substitute.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 17, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge Senators to Vote for Obama-Feingold Disclosure Amendment The Obama-Feingold amendment would require lobbyists and lobbying organizations to disclose the contributions they collect or arrange for federal officeholders and candidates, leadership PACs and party committees.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 17, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge Senators to Vote Tonight to Invoke Cloture on Reid-McConnell Substitute Reform groups urged Senators to vote tonight to invoke cloture on the Reid-McConnell substitute.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 16, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge Senators to Vote for Cloture on Reid Amendment Reform groups sent a letter today urging Senators to vote today for cloture on the Reid amendment to the Reid-McConnell substitute.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 12, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge Senators to Support DeMint Amendment Reform groups sent a letter today to all Senators urging them to support the DeMint amendment providing for public disclosure of earmarks.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 12, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge Senators to Support Key Strengthening Amendments to Ethics and Lobbying Bill Reform groups sent today urging Senators to support a series of key amendments to the Reid-McConnell substitute to strengthen the ethics and lobbying bill now pending before the Senate.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 10, 2007 -- Legal Center Sends Senators Memo on Astroturf Lobbying The Campaign Legal Center today sent a memorandum to all Senators analyzing the constitutionality of the astroturf lobbying provisions in S. 1, the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007. These provisions would require lobbying firms to disclose paid efforts to stimulate "grassroots" lobbying. This disclosure requirement does not apply to organizations communicating with their own members. As this memo makes clear, the astroturf lobbying language in this bill easily passes constitutional muster.
The astroturf lobbying provision in S. 1 will increase transparency and provide a more accurate record of paid lobbying efforts made to influence specific legislative actions in Congress. The Campaign Legal Center strongly urges you to oppose any efforts to weaken or strip these provisions from S. 1.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 9, 2007 -- Reform Groups Urge Senators to Support Reid Amendment to Reid-McConnell Substitute On January 9, 2007, reform groups sent a letter to Senators to support the amendment offered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to the Reid-McConnell substitute, which is currently pending on the Senate floor.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 8, 2007 -- Groups Urge Senate to Adopt Strong Ethics Reform The Campaign Legal Center joined Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters, Public Citizen and U.S. PIRG by urging the Senate to pass ethics reform legislation this week that are as strong as those passed by the House last week.
To read the full letter, click here.
Jan. 4, 2007 -- Speaker Pelosi Makes Commendable Start to Ethics Overhaul: Statement of Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center Policy Director The overwhelming passage of the changes in the House ethics rules represents a bold first step to overhauling the discredited ethics process in Congress.
To read the full statement, click here.
Jan. 4, 2007 -- Statement by Reform Groups on the Adoption of New Ethics Rules Today by the House The House took a major step forward today in adopting a strong package of new ethics rules to govern the conduct of Members and staff.
To read the full release, click here.
Jan. 3, 2007 -- House Ethics Reforms Represent Encouraging Start: Statement of Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center Policy Director The rules changes announced today are a strong and credible start on Speaker Pelosi's promises to end the "culture of corruption" in Washington. But without legitimate enforcement, these rules alone will not be sufficient to change the way business is done on Capitol Hill.
To read the full statement, click here.
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