The federal Lobbying Act continues to be an unethical facade 30 years after it came into force, as is the Lobbyists’ Code of Conduct, in force since 1997. Together they are so loophole-filled and weakly enforced, mainly to hide unethical big business lobbying, that they should be called the “Secret, Unethical Lobbying Legalization Act and Code.”

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