Billion Dollar Baby (like Rosemary's Baby): U.S. Chamber is First to Hit Lobbying Milestone

[Bill USA]

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/07/billion-dollar-baby-us-chamber-is-first-to-hit-lobbying-milestone.html?utm_source=CRP+Mail+List&utm_campaign=923b0c07c9-Newsletter_7_25_20137_25_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9df8578d78-923b0c07c9-206452605

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has made big news with the filing of a simple quarterly report.

When the behemoth business trade group reported its lobbying numbers for the second quarter of 2013 on Monday, it set a new record: The Chamber became the first organization to report total lobbying expenditures of more than $1 billion, according to OpenSecrets.org. Reporting that it spent $19.11 million from April through June, its grand total now stands at $1,002,845,680 since 1998, when the Center for Responsive Politics began tracking lobbying data.

For perspective, General Electric, the next highest spender, sits just under $294 million over the same period.

In 2012 alone, the Chamber -- which boasts a business membership in the hundreds of thousands -- devoted $136.3 million to influencing government policy, more than triple the total of the second highest spender. In fact, the lobbying expenditures of the next five firms added together still wouldn't equal the Chamber's outlays.
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[Rex]

1. They take their orders from Communist China.

nt.

[Bill USA]

3. Hey you should submit your stuff to Howie Mandel, he loves screwball humor like yours!

[Wounded Bear]

2. Fitting...

They are, after all, the defense department for the corporations.