From "Handcuffing America's Charities."
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On August 4, 1995, the House of Representatives passed the Labor,
Health and Human Services Appropriations bill for FY 1996 with
a provision by Representatives Ernest Istook (R-OK), David McIntosh
(R-IN), and Robert Ehrlich (R-MD) that would limit the advocacy
voice of federal grantees and impose significant new paperwork
burdens. That provision, called the Istook Amendment, was modified
and offered as an amendment during a House-Senate conference on
another spending bill, the Treasury, Postal Service, and General