Washington's Lobbyist Fix -- The Advisory Committee on Transparency

On March 14, 2011 the Advisory Committee on Transparency hosted a public discussion on the challenges facing lobbying reform and the actions needed to enact real-time lobbying disclosure in Washington. The event, held in the Rayburn House Office Building, room 2203, from 2-3:30pm, drew a packed room eager for insight into lobbying reform.

The panelists included:

*Dan Eggen -- staff writer, The Washington Post
*Shelia Krumholz -- Executive Director, Center for Responsive Politics
*Lisa Rosenberg -- Government Affairs Consultant, Sunlight Foundation
*Paul Miller -- Chairman/CEO, Miller/Wenhold Capitol Strategies, LLC; past-President, The American League of Lobbyists
*Tom Susman -- Director of Government Affairs, American Bar Association
*Moderator:




Daniel Schuman -- Policy Counsel, Sunlight Foundation, and Director, Advisory Committee on Transparency

To learn more about this and future ACT events, please visit:
http://transparencycaucus.org

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Thanks ! as I was watching the panel educate our society about lobbying, I thought of a qoute by Thomas Jefferson " Information is the currency in a Democracy " . Keep On Truckin '