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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: "homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Want a voice? Send $$$$$ to DC Whorehouse managers
  • Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:30:53 -0700

Special Report
Industry of Influence Nets Almost $13 Billion
Shadowy lobbyists ignore rules and exploit connections

By Alex Knott

WASHINGTON, April 7, 2005 — Special interests and the lobbyists they employ have reported spending, since 1998, a total of almost $13 billion to influence Congress, the White House and more than 200 federal agencies. They've hired a couple thousand former government officials to influence federal policy on everything from abortion and adoption to taxation and welfare. And they've filed—most of the time—thousands of pages of disclosure forms with the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk's Office.

Washington's lobbyists reported billing $2.4 billion in 2003, the most recent year for which complete data exist. That figure will almost certainly go up to more than $3 billion in 2004.

The rest of the article may be found at:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/report.aspx?aid=675&sid=200





  • [Homestead] Want a voice? Send $$$$$ to DC Whorehouse managers, Gene GeRue, 04/15/2005

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