I am frustrated, and I apologize to the committee if I sound frustrated. This Lobbying Act has to be amended. There are gaps and there are loopholes, and there is a lot of lobbying that can occur without people knowing. Now is the time to start fixing it.
I feel like a broken record when I keep repeating these issues with the act. The issue here is not Mr. Bains. He has said publicly that he will not communicate with federal officials, but the act would allow him to up to 20% of his time. That's one day a week during a month. That's a lot of phone calls. That's a problem.