{"id":612,"date":"2008-04-10T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T21:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/10\/lobbyists-rake-in-record-28-billion-in-2007\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T21:33:30","slug":"lobbyists-rake-in-record-28-billion-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/10\/lobbyists-rake-in-record-28-billion-in-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbyists rake in record $2.8 billion in 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corporations, industries, labor unions, governments and other interests spent a record $2.79 billion in 2007 to lobby for favorable policies in Washington, the nonpartisan <a href=\"http:\/\/opensecrets.org\">Center for Responsive Politics<\/a> has calculated. This represents an increase of 7.7 percent, or $200 million, over spending in 2006. <\/p>\n<p>And for every day that Congress was in session, industries and interests spent an average of $17 million to lobby lawmakers and the federal government at large. The drug industry spent more than any other, increasing its lobbying 25 percent last year.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full news release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/pressreleases\/2008\/Lobbying2007.4.10.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See OpenSecrets.org&#8217;s Lobbying Database <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/lobbyists\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporations, industries, labor unions, governments and other interests spent a record $2.79 billion in 2007 to lobby for favorable policies in Washington, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has calculated. This represents an increase of 7.7 percent, or $200 million, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/10\/lobbyists-rake-in-record-28-billion-in-2007\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}