Lobbying-money record broken again

[Rose Siding]

Spending on lobbying totaled more than $1.2 billion for the last six months of 2005, another record, according to a tally on the website politicalmoneyline.com.

For the year, spending topped $2.36 billion, according to the site. For the first time, during the last half of the year, spending to lobby Congress and the executive branch averaged $200 million a month.

The biggest single spenders in the second half of the year were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, General Electric, AT&T (including SBC), the Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform and the American Medical Association.

The five firms that reported the highest revenues in the last six months of 2005 were Patton Boggs, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Van Scoyoc Associates, Cassidy & Associates and the Federalist Group.

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/071106/lobby.html

[RedEarth]

1. I wonder who runs the country..........

.....a stab in the dark...oh let's see...let me guess..big business?????????

[rodeodance]

2. gee, all that talk of lobby reform is pufff!

[Bandit]

3. You think Democrats are sucking that tit for all it's worth?

I do..:shrug: Why your voice or mine means nothing...

[Monkeyman]

4. Lobbyist have a new member Hastert Son

J Dennis Hastert Son is now in the lobbyist coner! He is part of two groups oil and internet. Wonder what Bills will come to the floor now eck

[ShockediSay]

5. Let's tax the lobbyists!

Close the 8 trillion national debt in no time