Drug lobby spends $800 million in US alone.

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Drug Lobby Second to None

How the pharmaceutical industry gets its way in Washington

 

http://www.publicintegrity.org/rx/

 

By M. Asif Ismail

 

WASHINGTON, July 7, 2005 — The pharmaceutical and health products industry has

spent more than $800 million in federal lobbying and campaign donations at the

federal and state levels in the past seven years, a Center for Public Integrity

investigation has found. Its lobbying operation, on which it reports spending

more than $675 million, is the biggest in the nation. No other industry has

spent more money to sway public policy in that period. Its combined political

outlays on lobbying and campaign contributions is topped only by the insurance

industry.

 

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http://www.citizens.org/news/newsletter/2005/july/071405hl1.cfm