Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Microsoft Plays Politics
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> | Members of Congress and their staff members took about 23,000 trips
> | worth $48.9 million paid for by private interests between January 1,
> | 2000, through June 30, 2005... "Always on these trips, the question is,
> | who else is along for the ride? A lobbyist for Microsoft? Executives from
> | the company?... Travel almost always is a means for contact," he said.
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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060605/tc_pcworld/125963
Here is the complete list of corporate sponsors for anyone who's
interested.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/top.aspx?act=topcompanies
Microsoft is #23 on the list with $46 million. Right between the AARP,
Sprint and
American Council on Life Insurance.
For anyone too lazy to click.. the top 5 are (FYI Altria = Phillip
Morris):
Companies and Organizations Reported Lobbying
Chamber of Commerce for the U.S.A. $204,614,680
Altria Group Inc $101,220,000
General Electric Co. $94,130,000
American Medical Association $92,560,000
Northrop Grumman Corp. $83,405,691
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