Washington Lobbying Grew to $3.2 Billion Last Year, Despite Economy.
Published on January 29, 2009 2:09 PM.
While companies across the board were losing record amounts of money and laying off employees last year, at least one industry seemed to weather the recession: lobbying. Special interests paid Washington lobbyists $3.2 billion in 2008, more than any other year on record and a 13.7 percent increase from 2007, CRP has found. Corporations in the finance, insurance and real estate sector and automotive industry actually slowed or decreased their lobbying spending overall last year, relying instead on trade associations to represent them…. (Continue).
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6 Responses to Guess Who Gets The Stimulus Money, Guess Who Is Paying For It?
Andrea
January 3rd, 2010 at 4:10 am
http://www.halturnershow.blogspot.com/20… not to mention that China has cut us off. Kay Bailey Hutchinson is complaining that Texas is only getting a fraction of the stimulus. You think it’s a coincidence that they are the biggest red state?
Fanatic Conservative!
January 3rd, 2010 at 5:49 am
All this “stimulus” bill is trying to do is increase the size of government by spending more money on government programs and prepare America for socialism.
rwb13
January 3rd, 2010 at 6:20 am
people that don’t need it, people that do
catnurse
January 3rd, 2010 at 8:35 am
WOW thanks for the links
Roll_Tid
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:29 pm
They get it we pay for it.
ObamaBot THX-1138
January 3rd, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Exactly. That is why we support Obama’s new rules restricting lobbyists from working on his campaign, and vice versa.