Foreign Lobbying of NY Congressmen

by erich on August 19, 2009

Thanks to ProPublica and Sunlight Foundation:

…for the first time digitized one year’s worth of FARA records, making them accessible in a searchable database that allows users to easily follow the money and connect the dots. With the Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker , anyone can quickly learn what governments are lobbying whom, how often and about what. [source @ ProPublica]

Here are the firms the Congressmen and -women from my home state have been meeting with:

Foreign Lobbying of NY Congress

Foreign Lobbying of NY Congress

and the countries of the governmental department or foreign firm paying the lobbyists:

NY Congress Lobbying by Country

NY Congress Lobbying by Country

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erich August 19, 2009 at 9:16 pm

Oh, I forgot to say: the line widths are proportional to the number of times the groups met with each other.

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