Pharmaceutical Industry Gives Millions to Lobbyists

FOXNews.com - Politics - Report: Pharmaceutical Industry Gives Millions to Lobbyists: "In the past year, the industry hired nearly 1,300 lobbyists, including dozens of former lawmakers and hundreds of people who worked for congressional committees or regulatory agencies.

'It is astonishing to learn that no other interest has spent more money to sway public policy in this time period,' said Roberta Baskin (search), the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity (search). The nonpartisan research group investigated the pharmaceutical industry's spending.

Baskin described the industry's motives for its spending as profit-driven."