Lobbyists paid $2.9 billion, = 1% of federal budget

[L. Coyote]

If we could just get them to grow food instead, and give the money to a good cause :rofl:

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Lobbyists paid $2.9 billion, rough road ahead
by Mark Silva - http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/lobbyists_paid_29_billion_roug.html


There are the best of times, and the worst of times, for Washington lobbyists.

Their lobbying revenue for the past year is likely to approach $2.9 billion --OK, that's only about one percent of the amount of the federal budget -- and that's just the part that must be disclosed under federal law, note the authors of a National Journal article about Washington's K Street crowd.

Yet, for all the money they've made, lobbyists and their firms are now targeted as never before,Peter H. Stone and Bara Vaida write in the National Journal's cover story.

They are still recovering from the scandals that sent former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former Reps. Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican, and Randy (Duke) Cunningham, a Republican from California, to prison for their roles in fraud and corruption cases ...............

[L. Coyote]

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