1.0 link 221110 <![CDATA[Top Health Care Companies Spent More Than Half Million On Congressional Trips]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/26/top-health-care-companies_n_221110.html Over the past eight years, some of the largest and most politically active pharmaceutical and health care companies have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on private trips for members of Congress and their staffs.

All of the trips were described as fact-finding missions, designed to put legislators and their aides in touch with the issues they handle and people they represent. But others have interpreted them far more skeptically -- as the equivalent of out-of-session lobbying, where industry executives cozy...

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