On the recordJanuary 17, 2007
If I may ask further, this amendment, which I call a second look at waste, and some people have characterized it as enhanced rescission and others have called it the line-item veto, essentially allows the President to send up a package of rescissions, which I presume he would have taken out of omnibus bills, which I presume will be mostly earmarks for us to take a vote on. Isn't that something we have been discussing, this concept of earmarks, throughout the debate on this lobbying bill? And isn't this lobbying bill very much tied into the earmark issue? Isn't one of the real issues of lobbying the ability to establish earmarks by using influence?
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Judd Gregg
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