Political Quotes

“But it arises out of the fact that today in the United States we have a set of lobbying statutes that do not work, do not require the disclosure of necessary information so that the public can know what is going on, does not tell those who do lobby what they have to do and what they do not have to do, and are for all practical purposes useless. Instead we have brought to the House today historic legislation that would require that lobbyists register, that they disclose what they spend in the pursuit of their lobbying objectives, that they make clear exactly what they are doing, and the upshot of it is that the American people will now know what is going on and who is spending what and who is doing what in pursuit of the objectives of the many organizations, most of them good ones, that lobby this Congress in hopes of passing legislation or changing legislation or defeating legislation.”