Roberta Baskin, the Executive Director for the Center of Public Integrity, explains how it is profitable for companies to employ lobbyist.
Roberta Baskin at the National Press Club makes and example of Lockheed Martin, showing that since 1998 the company has received more than $94 billion defense contracts and it is spending $89 million in lobbying. She continues to explain that money spent on lobbying repeatedly doubles that of campaign finance.(:40)
April 8, 2005
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