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Updated: 1:17 PM EDT Jun 9, 2021 Urging lawmakers to stop taking bribes, demonstrators returned to Pennsylvania s Capitol on Wednesday to press lawmakers to pass legislation banning them from taking gifts from lobbyists and others aiming to influence them.Demonstrators from MarchOnHarrisburg unfurled banners on the Capitol steps and chanted pass the gift ban, stop taking bribes. MarchOnHarrisburg demonstrators have been arrested several times in the past during protests in lawmakers offices and the House chamber.Gift-ban legislation is routinely introduced and sees no action, despite pledges from top lawmakers to support it.Lobbyists and advocacy groups in Pennsylvania routinely give lawmakers free meals, travel and tickets to expensive sporting or entertainment events.The Pennsylvania Legislature is an outlier in that it does not limit how much lawmakers can accept from lobbyists and others, and much of it does not have to be reported publicly.Gifts of at least $250 i
Stop taking bribes, protesters urge Pennsylvania lawmakers
June 9, 2021
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Demonstrators from MarchOnHarrisburg stand outside Pennsylvania’s Capitol to press lawmakers to pass legislation banning them from taking gifts from lobbyists and others aiming to influence them, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, in Harrisburg, Pa. The Pennsylvania Legislature does not limit how much lawmakers can accept from lobbyists and others seeking to influence them.Marc Levy/AP
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Urging lawmakers to “stop taking bribes,” demonstrators returned to Pennsylvania s Capitol on Wednesday to press lawmakers to pass legislation banning them from taking gifts from lobbyists and others aiming to influence them.
Demonstrators from MarchOnHarrisburg unfurled banners on the Capitol steps and chanted “pass the gift ban, stop taking bribes.”