Eliza Newlin Carney’s new Rules of the Game column for National Journal begins: “House members insist publicly that they want an end to the lavish gifts, trips and meals that lobbyists have showered on lawmakers in recent years and that have prompted so much public outrage. But lawmakers don’t really want to give up their lobbyist-funded perks, of course, and that came through loud and clear at a recent House Judiciary Committee markup of lobbying reform legislation.”