While "most other Republicans" are avoiding the phrase K Street Project [3], following lobbyist Jack Abramoff [4]'s January agreement to plead guilty to corruption charges, Grover Norquist [5] is seeking to trademark it. Norquist's organization, Americans for Tax Reform [6], runs the project as what he describes as "an innocuous list of job openings for Washington lobbyists and a database of lobbyists' political ties and federal campaign contributions. The lists are circulated among high-level conservatives, with critics calling the efforts an improper 'whitelisting' and 'blacklisting' of potential hires," reports The Hill. Norquist says the K Street Project, which he founded in 1989, has been wrongly described as "a nefarious practice of Republican lawmakers pressuring groups to hire right-leaning employees." Trademarking the phrase will allow conservatives to "jealously guard the real phrasing" and to "sue anyone who says it wrong and make lots of money," explained Norquist.