To provide criminal penalties for lobbying by exempt organizations.

SA 2982. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2349, to provide greater transparency in the legislative process; which was ordered to lie on the table, as follows:

On page 25, after line 11, insert the following:

Section 7 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1606) is amended by adding at the end the following: “An officer of an organization described in section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 who engages in lobbying activities with Federal funds as prohibited by section 18 shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years and fined under title 18 of the United States Code, or both.”.