Spending on Congressional Staff Is Less Than Lobbying Expenditures
“The entire House and Senate combined now spend less on staff ($2 billion a year) than corporations spend on reported lobbying ($2.6 billion a year). But since that reported lobbying number is at best half of the actual money spent on lobbying, let’s say that corporations actually spend at least two times more on lobbying than Congress spends on staff”…(Read more at Vox.com)
Filed Under:
| Topics: | Congressional Staffing |
| Tags: | Kevin R. Kosar Lee Drutman |