USATODAY.com - Lobbyists showing Congress the world: "Lobbyists showing Congress the world
By Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON � A lobbyist can't legally pay for members of Congress to spend a lavish weekend in California's wine country � but a group of lobbyists apparently can.
If they form a tax-exempt group, a fairly easy exercise under IRS rules, lobbyists and their employers can get around congressional ethics regulations that forbid lobbyists to pay directly for such trips. That's the model used by America's Trust, a non-profit group formed last year that appears to be financed primarily by lobbyists and other interests with a stake in issues before Congress. Every member of its 12-person board of directors is a Washington lobbyist."
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