Lobbying Expenditures and Campaign Contributions by the Pharmaceutical and Health Product Industry in the United States, 1999-2018 (2020)

Peer-Reviewed Study · Wouters OJ, McKee M, Luyten J · March 2, 2020

Peer-reviewed analysis of OpenSecrets/Center for Responsive Politics and Senate Office of Public Records data: $4.7 billion in pharmaceutical and health-product federal lobbying from 1999-2018, averaging $233 million per year, the most of any industry.

the pharmaceutical and health product industry spent $4.7 billion on federal lobbying from 1999 to 2018

JAMA Intern Med 2020;180(5):688-697 (PMC full text)
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Peer-reviewed analysis of OpenSecrets/Center for Responsive Politics and Senate Office of Public Records data: $4.7 billion in pharmaceutical and health-product federal lobbying from 1999-2018, averaging $233 million per year, the most of any industry. Uses the same underlying OpenSecrets/Senate LD-2 disclosure data the flag asks for; annual OpenSecrets series pages themselves failed to load (see notes to MME-53).

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