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TEXAS TRIBUNE

Cities, Counties Spend Millions to Lobby in D.C.
by Tristan Hallman
November 11, 2010 |


Texans pay their members of Congress salaries totaling nearly $6 million each year to represent their interests — but for many cities and counties, that’s not enough. Over the last five years, local governments have shelled out $17 million more to hire an army of lobbyists in the nation’s capital, according to disclosure forms filed with the U.S. Senate and analyzed by The Texas Tribune.

Whether the goal is funding for education, airports, roads and fire and police departments or so-called “earmarkâ€