February 26, 1999

Disclosure Dead - campaign finance bill in trouble

Laura McCallum - Reporter

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A push to pass tougher financial disclosure laws for state legislators and lobbyists may be dead this session. An ethics expert from Rutgers University says such laws rarely produce valuable information for the public, and infringe on the privacy of citizen legislators. A House committee killed a disclosure bill this week, and it faces an uphill battle in the Senate.

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