Lobbying Shows Best, Worst Of Representative Government

Read the column here.

Just some food for thought:

Money in Politics Archive (podcasts and transcripts)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=149649575

Lobbying: The Myth, the Reality and the Impacts on Policy (“The Scarlet L”)

http://inews6.americanobserver.net/articles/lobbying-myth-reality-and-impacts-policy

Lobbying: From First Amendment to the Obama Era (timeline)

http://inews6.americanobserver.net/content/lobbying-first-amendment-obama-era

What is the History of Lobbying?

http://www.congress.org/news/what-is-the-history-of-lobbying/

The late Robert Byrd’s excellent Senate essay on “Lobbyists”

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/briefing/Byrd_History_Lobbying.htm

The lobbyist through history: villainy and virtue

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/0928/the-lobbyist-through-history-villainy-and-virtue

United States v. Harriss (1954)

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=347&page=612

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