> I would say your statement is even more misleading than mine. Fair enough, I guess. I think of groups like Blue Cross/Blue Shield or the NAR as representing

> I would say your statement is even more misleading than mine. Fair enough, I guess. I think of groups like Blue Cross/Blue Shield or the NAR as representing corporations, but I can see how you'd disagree on a strict reading. I didn't mean to mislead. > General Electric has fallen off a cliff since 1998. In 1998, GE spent $7.28m on lobbying. Nearly every year since then, they have spent more than that, generally staying north of $16m per year, with the exception of the last three years. Your statement is true only for the last three years. Same source: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000125&year=2018 https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000012... for GE, https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000100&year=2018 https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000010... for Boeing.