The article talks about a lobbyist supplying the same text to Democratic and Republican congressmen for inclusion in the congressional record. This happens all the time... And we wonder (or maybe we've stopped wondering) why it is so hard to do the "people's" business in Congress.
In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists?
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: November 15, 2009
More than a dozen lawmakers? statements on the health care debate were ghostwritten by lobbyists working for Genentech, a biotechnology company.
