Jo Maney
Jo Maney
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We were in contact obviously all day with the speaker and the entire leadership team trying to figure out how best to move forward in what is clearly uncharted territory. At the end of day, the speaker, in concert with the other members of the leadership, came up with kind of a shared responsibilities plan.
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Over the last decade, he has continued to have discussions on it, and most recently constitutional questions have been raised about outsiders looking at the ethics process.
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It was a big part of the discussion. A lot of members have talked about banning it outright.
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That was the difficulty of it. Lobbying is a First Amendment right and we would not want to in any way chill the desire to petition the government or lobby the government.