It strengthens public disclosure requirements concerning lobbying activity and funding, places more restrictions on gifts for members of Congress and their staff, and provides for mandatory disclosure of earmarks in expenditure bills.

Included in the bill are certain provisions that require a quarterly reports on lobby spending by organizations, places restrictions on gifts for Congress members and provides for mandatory disclosure of earmarks in expenditure bills.

The President should have what the governors of 43 states use to stop this sort of fiscal nonsense - what I had in California when I was Governor there: the ability to reach into those huge expenditure bills and cut out the waste.

They require that a lobbying entity must be registered, allow nonprofit organizations to lobby without losing their nonprofit status, require lobbying organizations to present quarterly reports about it, places restrictions on gifts U.S. Congress members can receive, and makes it mandatory for earmarks to be disclosed in expenditure bills.