Every time you turn around, there are differing reports from the House on how it plans to deal with lobby reform. From CQ Today: Many members oppose the travel moratorium as well as language that would require disclosure of the name of each member who has inserted any earmark in a general appropriations bill or the report accompanying it. Other, less contentions provisions would require more disclosures from lobbyists about their interactions and gifts to members and would eliminate the pensions of members convicted of crimes related to their office.

In the House, the House Rules committee will hold the first markup of the House Lobbying Reform bill HR 4975 this Thursday to markup the provisions that fall under their jurisdiction. There has been a commitment by Republican leadership to go through the committee process with all provisions of the bill, which means as many as 5 different committee markups may occur. At the same time, the House calendar for next week has lobbying reform and 527 reform legislation on it for consideration.

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The Senate will reconvene at 1 p.m. on Monday, March 27, following a weeklong recess. The chamber will then resume consideration of lobbying overhaul legislation (S 2349). A roll call vote is scheduled to occur at approximately 5:30 p.m. Senate leaders have not yet announced the subject of the vote, however, it is likely to be related to the lobbying bill.