A jobless recovery for lobbyists?
By Bill Allison Feb 12 2010 6:38 p.m.Perhaps the most interesting tidbit from the Center for Responsive Politics illuminating analysis of lobbying in 2009, which found a 5 percent increase in the amounts that businesses, trade groups, unions, nonprofits, universities, state and local governments and, of course, lobbying firms themselves reported spending, was this bit:
In a seemingly counterintuitive development, the number of companies or entities that reported lobbying the federal government in 2009 (15,712) increased slightly from the year before (15,049).But the number of actual, registered federal lobbyists decreased, falling to 13,742 in 2009 from 14,442 in 2008. Potential reasons for this phenomenon include some lobbyists effectively deregistering as lobbyists while still continuing to work in the business of political influence.That seems more likely an explanation than the notion of a jobless recovery on K Street.
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