GOP-led House quietly eliminates annual disclosure requirement for lobbyist-sponsored travel (Click here to read more)
Rss@dailykos.com (jed Lewison) · Tuesday, July 01, 2014, 5:50 pm.
On Monday, National Journal reported that the GOP-led House quietly stripped away a key disclosure mechanism for lobbyist-sponsored travel:
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It's going to be a little more difficult to ferret out which members of Congress are lavished with all-expenses-paid trips around the world after the House has quietly stripped away the requirement that such privately sponsored travel be included on lawmakers' annual financial-disclosure forms.[...]
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The move, made behind closed doors and without a public announcement by the House Ethics Committee, reverses more than three decades of precedent.
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