The commissioner said, when she testified before you, that she listened to everybody and has carefully crafted these rules and balanced what she heard. She didn't listen to us or the 15 or so other groups that sent her letters last June saying to extend the cooling-off period for significant political activities. She's reduced it to zero. That's not a balance going from four to zero.
It will allow everyone—lobbyists—to do pretty much everything they want except work full time in the campaign war rooms and then lobby the person at the same time and raise an unlimited amount of money for them while they're lobbying them.
No, she didn't listen to us at all, even though she took a lot of time.
