No. Secret lobbying will only be stopped when the act is changed to close all of the many loopholes that allow for secret lobbying.
Mr. Thurlow had said earlier today that if someone did secret lobbying it would be illegal. That's not true at all. If you're not paid to lobby, then you don't have to register. If you're lobbying about the enforcement of law and lobbying the agency that enforces the law, then you don't have to register. If you're a business employee and you're lobbying for less than 20% of your time, then you're not listed in the registry. You can violate the lobbyists' code as much as you want, because it doesn't apply to you.
There are huge loopholes. If you're lobbying about contracts—as you asked about earlier—you don't have to register. I'm not sure what he's talking about, that lobbying secretly is illegal. Lobbying secretly is legal in many ways. It's very easy as a contract lobbyist or a consultant lobbyist to just say, “Put my contract to say I'm paid for giving you strategic advice, but I'm lobbying for free.” Then you can never be prosecuted, because you're not being paid to lobby. There are huge loopholes, and those have to be closed to end secret lobbying.
The code needs to be strengthened to stop unethical lobbying.