Obama Announces Guidelines to Limit Lobbyists' Influence on Stimulus Effort

President Obama today announced "unprecedented restrictions" aimed at deterring lobbyists from influencing projects under a massive economic stimulus plan and vowed that recovery efforts will not become "an excuse for waste and abuse."
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