{"id":485096,"date":"2010-03-29T14:09:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T18:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1447"},"modified":"2010-03-29T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T18:09:38","slug":"capital-eyes-politiquizz-does-this-company-make-you-feel-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/485096","title":{"rendered":"Capital Eye’s PolitiQuizz: Does This Company Make You Feel Green?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You healthy?<\/p>\n

We hope so. But this week’s PolitiQuizz may have you feeling a bit green — with envy of a certain health company’s riches, that is.<\/p>\n

Your challenge:<\/u><\/strong> I was a notable player in the months-long debate over health care reform, ranking among the nation’s top 20 corporations and trade groups in terms of federal lobbying expenditures. And so far this election cycle, 175 congressional candidates have received a contribution from my political action committee. Members of Congress also love my stock, as several dozen of them reported personally investing in me during 2008. What company am I?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The first person to correctly answer this question by leaving an answer in this blog post’s comments section will win a free copy of The Blue Pages: Second Edition<\/font><\/a>, the new book for which the Center for Responsive Politics provides data and analysis. Answers will be accepted until 5 p.m. Friday. Results will be posted as part of next Monday’s PolitiQuizz. (Make sure to provide your e-mail address so we may contact you if you win!)<\/p>\n

Now back to our question from two weeks ago — PolitiQuizz went on a one-week hiatus thanks to a little health care reform vote you may have heard about — when we asked you this:<\/p>\n

“During this election cycle, my members have received more than $2.18 million in campaign contributions from lawyers and law firms — more than any other industry. In second place? Health professionals, who’ve already donated more than $2.15 million. My membership is also responsible for requesting about $900 million worth of federal earmarks during the 2009 fiscal year. Name what committee I am<\/span><\/i>.”<\/p>\n

The answer: The House Ways and Means Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to “Patrick,” who offered the correct answer. He is our newest winner of a copy of The Blue Pages: Second Edition<\/u> — and a pretty smart guy, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You healthy? We hope so. But this week’s PolitiQuizz may have you feeling a bit green — with envy of a certain health company’s riches, that is. Your challenge: I was a notable player in the months-long debate over health care reform, ranking among the nation’s top 20 corporations and trade groups in terms of federal lobbying expenditures. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3994,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}