{"id":518368,"date":"2018-02-07T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T03:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=518368"},"modified":"2018-02-07T20:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T03:27:33","slug":"no-you-cant-have-more-information-about-lobbyists-committee-decides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/02\/no-you-cant-have-more-information-about-lobbyists-committee-decides\/","title":{"rendered":"No, you can’t have more information about lobbyists, committee decides"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p>

The Senate chambers at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe.<\/p><\/div>\n

Look up a bill on the Iowa Legislature’s website<\/a>, and you might notice a nifty link alongside the text of the bill.<\/p>\n

Click “Lobbyist Declarations,” and you will get a list of which lobbyists have been talking to lawmakers about that bill.<\/p>\n

Turns out that legislators in New Mexico are not keen on taking a step in that direction.<\/p>\n

The Senate Rules Committee voted 6-2\u00a0Wednesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to block a bill<\/a> that would have required lobbyists to report which pieces of legislation they are advocating for or against.<\/p>\n

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Jeff Steinborn, D-Las Cruces, said the public would have benefited from the measure. “It would help show all the forces at work behind a piece of legislation,” he said.<\/p>\n

But members of the committee from both parties said more information may not necessarily give the public a better understanding of the Legislature. They argued that policymaking can be complicated. A bill’s supporters might turn against it on a dime over a late amendment that changes its very meaning, for example.<\/p>\n

“There’s no nuance to it,” Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, said of the bill.<\/p>\n

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More information may not necessarily give the public a better understanding of the Legislature, senators from both parties said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3634,296,705,107,706],"class_list":["post-518368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2018-legislative-session","tag-lobbyists","tag-money-in-politics","tag-roundhouse","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}