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    Reforms passed in 2013 capped lobbying spending on public officials at $75 per gift, but the new rules have plenty of loopholes. For the past three years, lobbyists have spent an average of about $770,000 annually, mostly on state lawmakers who passed the reforms. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM
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    September 20, 2016 -  Atlanta - Georgia State Capitol, the Gold Dome.  Downtown Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.  BOB ANDRES  /BANDRES@AJC.COM
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    March 16, 2020 - Atlanta - The resolution passes in the senate. Georgia lawmakers gathered in an extraordinary special session on Monday and voted to grant Gov. Brian Kemp sweeping new powers to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. It's the first time in state history a governor has declared a public health emergency, and Kemp cast it as essential to deploy all available resources to contain a disease that's sickened dozens of Georgians and has killed one.    Bob Andres / robert.andres@ajc.com
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    March 22, 2013 - Atlanta, Ga: The Senate voting board is shown with a vote of 52-0 for the passage of House Bill 142 in the Senate Chambers during Legislative Day 37 Friday afternoon in Atlanta, Ga., March 22, 2013. The Senate approved ethics reforms Friday with a vote of 52-0 to limit the influence of political lobbyists across Georgia. Sen. McKoon has been an advocate for ethics reform ever since he became a senator in 2010. The Senate changed most of House Speaker David Ralston's ethics reform bill stripping most of the bill's key provisions including a ban on one-on-one lobbyists gifts and replacing it with a $100 cap. JASON GETZ / JGETZ@AJC.COM
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    STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS--The audience applauds during the State of the State speech by Gov. Nathan Deal in the House Chambers at the State Capitol Tuesday night in Atlanta, Ga., January 10, 2012. AJC Photographer Jason Getz obtained special permission to place a camera at the rear of the platform during the address, producing this wide angle view of the Governor and assembled Legislature.
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    A loophole in Georgia’s ethics laws allows lobbyists to fund such group feeding fests as the annual Wild Hog Supper pictured here. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM
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