Sentences with phrase «recent lobbying scandals»

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All together, the package was billed as a five - point plan designed to enhance disclosure and regulation of campaign finance and lobbying at a Capitol rocked by scandal and corruption arrests in recent years.

«Moreover, this bill would have done nothing to prevent the recent string of «lobbying scandals» (which are in fact nothing of the sort) to which it is a reflexive response.»

But with prominent fights flaring over Russian election interference, data breaches and other scandals, the biggest tech companies — no longer wishing to publicly oppose a bill fighting sex trafficking — retreated from their lobbying effort in recent weeks.