To decrease the evil of lobbying a law was enacted in 1906 which requires that every person employed to promote or oppose the passage of any bill shall file in the office of the secretary of state a written statement showing who has employed him and describing the legislation in respect of which his services are to be rendered; the law also requires the employers of lobbyists to file in the same office within two months after the adjournment of the legislature an itemized statement of all their lobbying expenses, and forbids the employment of a lobbyist for a contingent fee. [Please select]
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Indeed, the affairs of the Elevated took up much of Roosevelt's attention and enriched for years the Black-Horse Cavalrymen and the lobbyists. [Please select]
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They had Republican Assemblymen and Democratic Assemblymen in their service, and their lobbyists worked harmoniously with either party. [Please select]
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The rooms were crowded with Congressmen, Government officials, officers of the Army and Navy, clerks, contractors, paymasters, lobbyists, and professional gamblers. [Please select]
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After a time, however, the number of "strikes" decreased, as well as the number of lobbyists attending the session. [Please select]
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"I'll tell you one or two of the things those railroad lobbyists have done," said Mr.' [Please select]
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They had exerted a great influence upon legislation--not by use of the vulgar arts of the lobbyists, but by the plea of party advantage or by the prophecy of party loss. [Please select]
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It lay during the last Congress in the one person who was the accomplished intermediary between the expert lobbyists and the legislation of Congress. [Please select]
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