Okay, I found the amendment (220 of S1, if anyone's interested):
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/...6qb7Pc:e38473:
Here's the thing, as best I can tell-- the amendment was requiring people who are PAID to lobby via internet and grassroots to register, and even if paid, if they reach an audience of fewer than 500, they don't register. If more than 500, they register if they are paid to lobby. Here's the intro:
(1) in paragraph (7), by adding at the end of the following: `Lobbying activities include paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying,
but do not include grassroots lobbying.'; and
(2) by adding at the end of the following:
`(17) GRASSROOTS LOBBYING- The term `grassroots lobbying' means the voluntary efforts of members of the general public to communicate their own views on an issue to Federal officials or to encourage other members of the general public to do the same.
It goes on, but as best I can understand, it doesn't apply to the average blogger one whit; just to those paid to lobby people to act, at the grassroots level or otherwise.
Either way, it's been defeated. But since it involves money, now I see why all the Republicans voted against it.
