How lobbying works, with super-lobbyist Tony Podesta
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
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Then There's the Transpacific Partnership
The transpacific pnic artaship trade deal, that is, that has been negotiated by the united states trade representative in the obama administration and 16 other governments across the pacific. The question of something like a bombacare isn't always whether or not it passes, but what it says on page 12 hundred 13 hundred, 13 hundred seven. And it really matters. I saw an estimate while i was preparing to talk to you that federal lobbeing in 19 98 amounted to about one point eight billion dollars, and now it is above 30 billion. What do you think accounts for the explosion of expenditure on a lobbing? Because we still have the same number of people in congress
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