ABSTRACT
This chapter analysis key elements of this battle constitute the central points on lobby laws. It presents the proponents case for more effective lobby laws and then discusses some of the problems inherent in the design of such legislation. In addition to the arguments on the effect of secretive lobbying on public attitudes toward government and politics, the rest of the reformers arguments focus on the near-total failure of the existing laws that purport to regulate lobbying. The arguments related to the adequacy of lobby laws are dealt when people survey about the 1946 lobby law and other relevant statutes. Perhaps the most fundamental of these problems is the tension between the concept of lobby regulation and the protections guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. The chapter examines the nature of federal legislation affecting lobbying as an analysis of recent provisions that seek to correct the flaws of the legislation of the 1930s and 1940s.
