U.S. Chamber Reports Eye-Popping $123 Million to Lobby

[Modbert]

U.S. Chamber Reports Eye-Popping $123 Million to Lobby - Roll Call

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has been leading a high-priced campaign against health care legislation, shelled out $123 million for federal lobbying in 2009, almost double what the business group spent the previous year.

This after complaining to the Supreme Court that its voice is being “suppressed”

 

[VaYank5150]

U.S. Chamber Reports Eye-Popping $123 Million to Lobby - Roll Call

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has been leading a high-priced campaign against health care legislation, shelled out $123 million for federal lobbying in 2009, almost double what the business group spent the previous year.

This after complaining to the Supreme Court that its voice is being “suppressed”

Our United States Government will now be just like our health care system....the best system money can buy! Sad.

 

[Oddball]

So, we're supposed to license them, regulate them, tax them, sue them out of business, talk them into the ground when it's politically expedient, but they're not supposed to try and do anything to affect those policies?

 

[rdean]

So, we're supposed to license them, regulate them, tax them, sue them out of business, talk them into the ground when it's politically expedient, but they're not supposed to try and do anything to affect those policies?

Figures. Why not just turn over the country to Exton?

 

[Oddball]

Yup....Common street thugs still prefer victims who can't defend themselves.