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SpurNation
09-17-2009, 03:17 PM
If so...wouldn't lobbiest be considered as "Bribing" for favors and the Congressman who accept those bribes eligible for impeachment for not upholding the law?

If not...why is it against the law for a cop to receive a bribe and not a Congressman?

As described by Merriam:
BRIBE: to induce or influence by
101A
09-17-2009, 03:20 PM
If so...wouldn't lobbiest be considered as "Bribing" for favors and the Congressman who accept those bribes eligible for impeachment for not upholding the law?

If not...why is it against the law for a cop to receive a bribe and not a Congressman?

As described by Merriam:
BRIBE: to induce or influence by

Congressmen write the laws.

Next.
SpurNation
09-17-2009, 05:44 PM
Congressmen write the laws.

Next.

So they're immune to bribery laws?
jman3000
09-17-2009, 05:47 PM
The favors part is illegal as is the bribes. Lobbyists are supposed to be there in an informative capacity, although we all know they have first dibs on the ears of politicians and there's most definately a system already in place that hides what goes on.
CosmicCowboy
09-17-2009, 05:49 PM
So they're immune to bribery laws?

Yeah, unless they get really brazen and fail to call it "political donations". Taking bundles of cash personally is technically still illegal.
hope4dopes
09-17-2009, 06:26 PM
If so...wouldn't lobbiest be considered as "Bribing" for favors and the Congressman who accept those bribes eligible for impeachment for not upholding the law?

If not...why is it against the law for a cop to receive a bribe and not a Congressman?

As described by Merriam:
BRIBE: to induce or influence by

There is one law for the Poor and no Law for the rich. A couple a years back a democrat congressmen from New Jersey was brought up on bribery charges, the Korean bussiness man accused of bribing him was convicted and sent to prison, the congressman was allowed to go free and even went out to campagian for relection?