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31, 2006 email this print this Taking baby steps toward lobby reform OUR OPINION: SENATE MEASURES FALL SHORT OF SIGNIFICANT RESTRICTIONS It was just a coincidence that the Senate approved a lobbying reform measure on the same day that a federal judge in Miami sentenced über-lobbyist Jack Abramoff to nearly six years in prison, but the two events have a cause-and-effect connection.

Public outrage generated by Abramoff's influence-peddling schemes in Washington forced an otherwise apathetic Senate to respond by making a show of cleaning up its act.

But no one should be fooled - the Senate's ...

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