A decade after Oregon cracked down on lobbyist wining and dining, lawmakers consider loosening limits

Oregon lawmakers are considering whether to allow lobbyists to wine and dine them without limits, more than a decade after they clamped down on the practice with a broad ethics law.

The Legislature passed Senate Bill 10 in 2007 after members were embarrassed by reports in The Oregonian/OregonLive on how beer and wine distributors paid for legislators to travel to Hawaii.

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