In the first two weeks of the 110th Congress, Senator Obama helped lead the Senate to pass the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act, a comprehensive ethics and lobbying reform bill, by a 96-2 vote. This landmark bill was signed into law by the President in September 2007.

The final bill that the Congress passed closely mirrored and drew key provisions in a bill (S. 230) that Senators Obama and Feingold introduced in January 2007 to establish a “gold standard” for reform. Among the provisions in the Obama-Feingold bill that were adopted by the Senate and the House were: strict bans on receiving gifts and meals from lobbyists; new rules to slow the revolving door between public and private sector service; and an end to the subsidized use of corporate jets.

http://obama.senate.gov/issues/ethics_and_lobbying_reform/

However if you do not want to use Obama's Senate sight you can find other links with a simple google search- Obama, ethics bill.

What does it mean when comments are held by the blog owner? I'm trying to link to a bunch of things, so maybe it's a spam blocking thing.. I don't know. I guess I can split this up, though:

Don't mean to interrupt and distract from this post, but Have you seen the button pin going on sale at the Texas GOP convention? It is so disgusting, sick and wrong I can't even believe it - It's a huge black button with white letters that reads:

If Obama Is President, Will We Still Call It The White House? source: Politico Web Site - Ben Smith - June 17, 2008.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

I emailed the RNC and will email Texas. I'm so outraged and hope everyone here will contact RNC and Texas and whoever else to voice their outrage too!

(I did post this on another TPM too, hope no one gets irritated, but this is just too much!)