Louis, said that the two offices could not monitor lobbyists in the way the bill requires without some additional assistance. Despite being hit from all angles throughout the floor debate, Canuteson still emerged with a victory. The reason many in the House supported the bill despite their misgivings, Rep. Bill Gratz said, had little to do with solving a real problem and more to do with it being an election year. If you vote for this bill, you are saying that you can be bought with a meal and that there is a problem. Canuteson responded in his closing remarks by comparing a lobbyist buying a dinner for a legislator to a defendant buying dinner for a judge.
People are tired of reading about the wining and dining of lobbyists.
Soon after, the bill passed with ease. The Senate has already passed similar legislation, but the differences between the two plans still have to be worked out in a conference committee.