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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Do you have any idea how many lobbyists there are on K Street, and how many individual corps and individual industries they represent? They tend to get quieter consideration -- it's a lot more acceptable to say, publicly, that "the Chamber of Commerce supports this" than "ExxonMobil supports this", but to suggest that all of those K Street lobbyists (not to mention all of those corporate and industry org. donations) are insignificant is absurd.
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Plus, it does not seem to me that on the federal level really broad business groups do all that much. Industry groups, yes. Chamber of Commerce of Podunkville, no. And industry groups are much like unions (the whole union, not the locals) -- they are much more interested in one particular industry than in the economy in general.
