The Lobbyists' Ability To Control The Message

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 11/20/2009 - 00:37

It certainly won't come as much of a surprise to readers around here that lobbyists from Roche/Genentech were able to get 42 different members of Congress to include text they had written into the Congressional Record.

For way too long, we've seen how much politicians seem to rely on lobbyists to write the legislation, create the talking points and (at times) even deferring questions to the lobbyists themselves.

Is it any wonder that lobbyists have become the new...

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