“Waning Influence, Part 2: Does Congressional Gridlock Lock Up K Street?”

CRP has this analysis of the relationship between lobbying spending and gridlock.  A snippet:  “[T]the notion that lobbying dollars might flow more freely when Congress is passing many bills, though plausible, is untested. In this report, the second in our series documenting the decline in lobbying, we looked at whether the data actually supports the explanation that lobbying increases when Congress is productive. The results are a decidedly mixed bag.”

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