Obey: 'I wrote the ethics code'

Rep. Dave Obey tells the Appleton Post Crescent that he authored the ethics code prohibiting lobbyists from paying for Congressional travel, and he's not happy about the way the travel story is being reported. (See yesterday's post about Sensenbrenner below.)

“I wrote the code of ethics that you are now using to write these stories,” said Obey. “I wrote the disclosure requirement and it bugs the hell out of me that the press doesn’t have the institutional memory to remember that.”

Most of Obey's trips have been paid for by the Aspen Institute, a non-profit think tank, not by groups which employ lobbyists.

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