roundtable: Nonprofit gag rule - why not cover fortune 500?

roundtable: Nonprofit gag rule - why not cover fortune 500?

Nonprofit gag rule - why not cover fortune 500?

James Love (love@Essential.ORG)
Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:41:07 -0400 (EDT) 

Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:41:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Love <love@Essential.ORG>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Nonprofit gag rule - why not cover fortune 500?
In-Reply-To: <01HU31P526TE8Y510U@bentley.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950822183734.16303E-100000@essential.essential.org>


I think that someone should offer an amendment to the gag rule which 
expands it to cover any profit making corporation that receives public 
funds in many way.  That would quickly make all fortune 500 lobbying 
illegal, and that wouldn't be such a bad outcome.  jamie


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On Tue, 15 Aug 1995 CWHITCOM@bentley.edu wrote:
> 
> NONPROFIT GAG RULE
> 
> The move to drastically limit public advocacy work financed by
> federal funds was passed on August 4, 1995 as a part of the
> Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations bill.  Rep. David Skaggs
> (D-CO) proposed an amendment to delete the "Istook amendment"
> but it failed by a vote of 187-232.  The appropriations bill won
> by a vote of 219-208.  Rep. David Obey (D-WI) stated that the
> bill was a "mean and ugly piece of work" and that it was a
> "vicious exercise of public power".  The  August 7, New York
> Times described the amendment as a "remarkable rider" which
> "calls for a cutoff of grants to nonprofit entities if they
> spend more than a threshold amount - even of money from other
> sources - on political advocacy.  A cancer society that gets
> Federal funds might then not be able to testify before congress
> on the best prospects for cancer research".
> 
> 
> 
> This nasty piece of legislation still must pass the Senate
> before it becomes law.  The advocacy group, Independent Sector,
> will be holding "road shows" in states where members of the
> Senate Appropriations Labor HHS Committee reside in order to
> drum up opposition during the next series of legislative steps.

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