February 8, 2007
Charities Win Travel Exception in Senate Ethics Legislation
Nonprofit groups and others that lobby Congress would face new restrictions on their dealings with U.S. senators and stricter reporting requirements under an ethics bill that was approved by the Senate last month. However, charities won an exception to a provision that bans groups from paying for Congressional travel.
The Senate also deleted language from the bill that would have required nonprofit groups and others to file reports about their grass-roots lobbying
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