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Lobbyists Spend Record Sums to Influence Washington WASHINGTON - The old jab about the United States having the best democracy money can buy took on new meaning Thursday. For every day Congress was in session last year, lobbyists spent an average of 17 million dollars currying favour with legislators and federal officials, the nonpartisan Centre for Responsive Politics (CRP) said in a new report.

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Lobbyists Spend Record Sums to Influence Washington

WASHINGTON - The old jab about the United States having the best democracy money can buy took on new meaning Thursday.

For every day Congress was in session last year, lobbyists spent an average of 17 million dollars currying favour with legislators and federal officials, the nonpartisan Centre for Responsive Politics (CRP) said in a new report.