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Healthcare Lobbyists: 6 For Each Member Of Congress
Healthcare lobbyists: 6 for each member of Congress
By Andrew Malcolm | LATimes
Excerpt: ...here are some startling lesser-known facts, pulled together by two diligent Bloomberg News reporters, Lizzie O'Leary and Jonathan Salant:
Every one of those 534 members of Congress now has six (6!) lobbyists working on them -- and that's just for healthcare.
A total of 3,300 lobbyists have registered to drive the sizzling healthcare issue in Washington -- three times the brigade of lobbyists representing the entire defense industry.
And three more healthcare lobbyists join the ongoing fray every day.
They reported spending more than $234 million massaging and informing and persuading those legislators during the first six months of this year, way more than a million bucks a day, seven days a week.Read more.
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Congress. Already a proven playground for constituent 'SALE-OUT' to Corporate America's lobbist, for personal greed is nothing new. The money and influence comes from a bottomless pot, and many of those elected officials who pledged to represent the public's interest, are simply turning their backs on the people who put their trust in honesty, but find out, greed trumpts honesty and loyality of these elected men and women.
"We the People" must remain determined to stop these officials from caving in to Corporate America, and just do their jobs representing their constituents first.