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Interesting Lobbying figures
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9-14-2009 10:27 AM
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9-14-2009
10:42 AM
clip-on-tie
ljs, sorry about my grumpy comments earlier....I'm usually not so bitchy..... had a bad headache and I'm already a little bit crazy as it is, and the combination turns me into a freak
9-14-2009
10:46 AM
ljsdesign
No problem Clip-On, have days like that myself.
9-14-2009
10:48 AM
ljsdesign
Besides we're all a little crazy around here
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7f6e737f-7ecc-4517-8411-704039a9e145/24964386-BDC5-4939-B56C-035C601522E8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.opensecrets.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/"><H1>Lobbying Database</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/"><P class="intro">In addition to campaign contributions to elected officials and candidates, companies, labor unions, and other organizations spend billions of dollars each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies. Some special interests retain lobbying firms, many of them located along Washington's legendary K Street; others have lobbyists working in-house. We've got totals spent on lobbying, beginning in 1998, for everyone from AAI Corp. to Zurich Financial.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/"><TABLE cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bordercolor="#9a8069" border="1"><TBODY><TR class="rowTint"><TD bgcolor="#dfcdb9"><P align="center">Total Lobbying Spending</p> </TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"><TABLE cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"><TBODY><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">1998</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="52.465659414117" alt="$1,441,256,939" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$1.44 Billion </TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">1999</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="52.443978250838" alt="$1,440,661,347" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$1.44 Billion </TD></TR><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">2000</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="56.757707915806" alt="$1,559,161,579" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$1.56 Billion </TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">2001</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="59.565396282007" alt="$1,636,290,131" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$1.64 Billion </TD></TR><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">2002</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="66.144147018871" alt="$1,817,011,583" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$1.82 Billion </TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">2003</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="74.539007916057" alt="$2,047,622,456" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$2.05 Billion </TD></TR><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">2004</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="79.250321871782" alt="$2,177,044,520" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$2.18 Billion </TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">2005</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="88.499447511054" alt="$2,431,122,457" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$2.43 Billion </TD></TR><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">2006</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="95.265670824789" alt="$2,616,993,871" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$2.62 Billion </TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">2007</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="104.0276084662" alt="$2,857,688,519" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$2.86 Billion </TD></TR><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">2008</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="120" alt="$3,296,457,809" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$3.30 Billion </TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">2009</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="59.39234001584" alt="$1,631,536,192" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">$1.63 Billion </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/"><TABLE cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bordercolor="#9a8069" border="1"><TBODY><TR class="rowTint"><TD bgcolor="#dfcdb9"><P align="center">Number of Lobbyists</p> </TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"><TABLE cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"><TBODY><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">1998</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="84.524014005417" alt="$10,662" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">10,662</TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">1999</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="104.91378740834" alt="$13,234" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">13,234</TD></TR><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">2000</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="100.7042346568" alt="$12,703" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">12,703</TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">2001</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="95.487877386536" alt="$12,045" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">12,045</TD></TR><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">2002</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="97.707603884521" alt="$12,325" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">12,325</TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">2003</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="104.13688313404" alt="$13,136" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">13,136</TD></TR><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">2004</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="105.94437471097" alt="$13,364" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">13,364</TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">2005</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="113.78476580564" alt="$14,353" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">14,353</TD></TR><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">2006</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="116.21853735879" alt="$14,660" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">14,660</TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">2007</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="120" alt="$15,137" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">15,137</TD></TR><TR class="rowTint"><TD nowrap="" align="center">2008</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="117.32840060778" alt="$14,800" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">14,800</TD></TR><TR><TD nowrap="" align="center">2009</TD><TD align="left"><IMG height="10" width="99.515095461452" alt="$12,553" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/green.gif" /></TD><TD class="number">12,553</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/24964386-BDC5-4939-B56C-035C601522E8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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