220 Eighty-Sixed

Jacob Sullum | January 19, 2007

Yesterday the Senate passed a lobbying reform bill without that pesky Section 220, which, in combination with various arcane provisions of existing lobbying law, could have been read to require political activists and bloggers to register and file reports as lobbyists. Read my post from yesterday to see my puzzlement giving way to vague understanding, which no doubt eventually would have become outrage had the threat not already been averted.