Scandal Should Prompt IRS to Clarify Rules
To protect the integrity of groups pursuing nonpartisan activities, it’s important for the tax agency to be clearer about just what kinds of politicking social-welfare groups can pursue.
New Deficit Deal Should Make Nonprofit World Quake
Not only are the direct finances of nonprofits threatened but so too is the ability of citizen groups to represent the needs of America’s most vulnerable.
Lobbying has increasingly become a dirty word. It is associated with backroom deals negotiated by those with lots of money. It is unseemly, made all the more ugly by the likes of the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Yet Americans have fought wars to defend our constitutional right to lobby. The…
By Gary D. Bass
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Let’s Change How Washington Does Business
The lobbying scandals that have roiled Washington in the past year have amply demonstrated just how uneven the lobbying field is. Nonprofit groups that don’t have money or connections often lose out to business leaders and other wealthy people who can buy access to lawmakers. As a result, citizen…
By Gary D. Bass
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