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Crawford: How historic is state's ethics legislation?
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One of the major questions still to be answered in this year’s legislative session is whether the House and Senate will actually agree on some kind of bill to limit what lobbyists can spend on lawmakers. There is a basic disagreement between the two chambers over how this issue should be handled. Speaker David Ralston and his House colleagues want to prohibit lobbyist gifts to individual legislators completely, although their bill has large loopholes that allow lobbyists to spend money on groups of lawmakers.