The Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) reports that the Illinois pay to play ban is not a “done deal.”
After months of wrangling, the General Assembly approved in May a ban on contractors with state deals of $50,000 or more from giving campaign contributions to the officeholders who hired them. Whether it becomes law depends on the signature of a governor who has been held up as the primary example of why such a ban is needed.
The text of S.3123, a bill to amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act, is available.
A BILL
To require lobbyists who represent foreign politicians or political parties and foreign entities to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the `Closing the Foreign Lobbying Loophole Act’.
SEC. 2. REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT. Section 3 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (22 U.S.C. 613) is amended by striking subsection (h).
SEC. 3. EXPANSION OF LOBBYING CONTACTS TO OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES. Section 1(c)(1)(iv) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (22 U.S.C. 611(c)(1)(iv)) is amended by inserting `or outside the United States’ after `within the United States.’
The Supreme Court did not announce its opinion in Davis v. FEC today.
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