Thursday, August 30, 2007

POLITICS - Lobbying Database '98 to '07


LOBBYING DATABASE

Top Spenders, 1998-2007

Client

Total

US Chamber of Commerce

$338,324,680

American Medical Assn

$166,707,500

General Electric

$149,690,000

American Hospital Assn

$137,822,035

Pharmaceutical Rsrch & Mfrs of America

$115,008,600

AARP

$112,732,064

Edison Electric Institute

$111,472,878

National Assn of Realtors

$103,890,000

Business Roundtable

$101,660,000

Northrop Grumman

$101,350,474

Freddie Mac

$93,370,648

Lockheed Martin

$88,393,965

Blue Cross/Blue Shield

$86,211,317

Boeing Co

$82,038,310

Verizon Communications

$80,616,522

General Motors

$77,600,483

Philip Morris

$75,500,000

Fannie Mae

$73,857,000

Exxon Mobil

$71,262,941

Ford Motor Co

$71,232,808


And you wonder why Washington is so disconnected from the citizen-on-the-street? These "people" pay to make sure they are the only ones heard.

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