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K Street Thrived In 2009: The Proof Is In The Numbers

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The Center for Responsive Politics is sifting through the tens of thousands of reports filed with Congress and expects to finish crunching the numbers sometime next week.

“Unless there’s a highly unexpected drop in lobbying for the 4th quarter, 2009 will eclipse all others in terms of federal lobbying expenditures,” wrote CRP spokesman Dave Levinthal. “That’s all the more notable because it happened despite terrible economic conditions, when some large financial, real estate and insurance interests reduced their lobbying efforts or quit them altogether.”

Full story: K Street Thrived In 2009: The Proof Is In The Numbers-Huffington Post