This contributions chart has been updated as of 1/5/06. Everyone was eating at that trough...
Jack Abramoff Lobbying and Political Contributions, 1999 - 2006
http://www.capitaleye.org/abramoff_recips.asp?sort=R
Make lobbying illegal?
Lobbying is just how people affected by laws -- including 'corporate' people and groups -- can make their needs and views known. There should never be a law the purports to limit how people may speak their minds, or whether they can be paid to speak on behalf of someone else.
It is sensible and rational to contribute to an elected person who will work your will. Making those contributions illegal is the problem, not the solution.
Who?
Why aren't Pelosi or Murtha calling for ethics investigations? RATS in glass houses? I think so, too...
LOL.. I reposted this one later, it had me in stitches.
No new news here.
Brooms aren't very selective about what they sweep.