Anyone who thought John Boehner's victory over Seventh District Congressman Roy Blunt in the House majority leader race was going to lead to lobbying reform is in for a major disappointment.
According to an article in today's New York Times, Boehner not only has blocked lobbyist reform legislation, but:
He has been holding fund-raisers at lobbyists’ offices, flying to political events on corporate planes and staying at a golf resort with a business group that has a direct stake in issues before Congress.
This is another case of politicians making a few statements that sound like they are taking a problem seriously, then simply ignoring the problem once the spotlight is turned on some other issue.
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