SpurNation
09-16-2009, 05:09 PM
* The lords of high finance still wield vast power. Financial firms are second only to health care companies (http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=a&indexType=c) in the amount of money they've spent lobbying the federal government this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. They've shelled out $222.7 million. That's lower than last year, but Wall Street is still spending a fortune to bend Washington's ear.
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