Pharmaceutical industry uses lobby powers to ensure legislative dominance

M. Asif Ismail of The Center for Public Integrity reviewed lobbying records to report on the "deep-pocketed pharmaceutical and health products industry", which "has lobbied on more than 1,400 congressional bills since 1998 and spent a whopping $759 million during that period ..." The story includes detailed graphics, as well as data seperated into categories ranging from lobbying firm donations to issues lobbied by the pharmaceutical and health product industry.