Let me ask the gentleman a question. Maybe a rhetorical question will do some good. Does the gentleman think the rules ought to permit him to go and play golf and have a lobbyist, whose job it is to convince him to vote for his client and maybe against the people that are sitting here with us today, that the lobbyist ought to be able to pay for the gentleman's greens fees?
Questioning the ethics of lobbyist influence on lawmakers.
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