Flashback: Lawmakers' Lobbying Spouses Avoid Hill Reforms

Flashback 2007 to The Washington Post:

When Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) rose to the Senate floor last summer and passionately argued for keeping the federal estate tax, he left one person with an interest in retaining the tax unmentioned.

The multibillion-dollar life-insurance industry, which was fighting to preserve the tax because life insurers have a lucrative business selling policies and annuities to Americans for estate planning, has employed Dorgan's wife as a lobbyist since 1999.

At least prostitutes are cleaner and much more honest. No word yet on this story from Loretta Durbin.