State Lobbying Commission
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State Lobbying Commission Lobbying Commission
This week, the state's Lobbying Commission disclosed that two rail companies, Canadian Pacific Railway, and the New York Susquehanna & Western Railway, had applied to take members of 17 different legislative committees and six state agencies, along with their families and staffs, by private train from Saratoga Springs to Montreal, and to provide breakfast and lunch along the way, as well as dinner in the Canadian city. It also comes as the Lobbying Commission's administrative staff has imposed a $75 a year gift limit, instead of allowing lobbyists to give legislators as many gifts worth $74.99 or less as they pleased.