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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Hey! You can be a professor of lobbying!
Who knew?

From a longish Fox News piece about proposed lobbying reforms:

Julius Hobson, an adjunct associate professor of lobbying at George Washington University, said each chamber of Congress could pass bills that differ on a number of measures, such as the value of gifts allowed, what type of travel is allowed and whether to force further restrictions on so-called 527s political action groups, named for the section of tax code that governs them. 527s have been criticized because they do not face the same spending and contribution restrictions as other political organizations.
Posted at: 2/08/2006 04:43:00 PM