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More University Lobbying

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

Organizations, including colleges and universities, that pay people to lobby the federal government are required by law to report those expenditures to Congress every six months. But because of the way the federal disclosure law defines lobbying, not every dollar that universities spend needs to be reported…

Wow, and we thought these dollar amounts were shocking enough! Remember, these millions of lobbying dollars from the public universities come from taxpayers' pockets and go towards lobbying for more taxpayer dollars from the federal government.
 
Vicious cycle? We think so.

Colleges Lobbying the Federal Government, 2003

Organization Amount Spent in 2003

1) University of California System $1,240,000

2) State University of New York System Office $880,000

3) Johns Hopkins University $840,000

4) Boston University $800,000

5) University of Southern California $680,000

6) University of Pittsburgh (Main Campus) $580,000

7) Harvard University $520,000

8) California State University System Office $500,000

9) George Washington University $482,200

10) Saint Louis University $480,000

See the rest of the 586 schools here