U.S. Chamber Reports Record Spending on Lobbying

• By Bennett Roth
• Roll Call Staff
• Oct. 19, 2009, 2:29 p.m.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce shelled out a record $34.7 million for federal lobbying in the third quarter of this year as the powerful business group sought to influence a wide gamut of issues from health care to legislation involving pythons.