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About half of retiring senators and a third of retiring House members register as lobbyists
Back in the 1970s and '80s, it was relatively rare for former Congress members to become lobbyists. This makes sense, since the lobbying industry was not nearly as big then. The real growth of lucrative Washington lobbying has been since the 1990s, trends that I document in my book The Business of America Is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate. Now reported lobbying is a $3.2 billion-a-year activity.
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Where is real government when you need it.
In line with their pockets open.
This is something that should be banned. It is amazing to me that people just don't get riled up enough to stop this madness.