Stimulus Spending Stimulates Lobby Firms

"The $787 billion stimulus package -- along with an ambitious new federal budget, bank bailouts and the beginning of a regulatory overhaul -- has succeeded in stimulating the economy along Washington's avenue of influence. In the months since the November election, more than 2,000 cities, companies and associations have hired...

By Robert O'Harrow | March 30, 2009; 01:57 PM ET | Comments (4)