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Did you know that lobbyists successfully influenced the FDA to label all imported catfish from Vietnam as “Swi,” effectively creating a new species of fish identical to catfish.
In 2020, the camera company Kodak lobbied the White House for a government loan to produce COVID emergency supplies, and actually got a loan two weeks later of $700 million (the news of the loan also sent their stock price from $2 to $32). General Motors also teased the new crab-walking electric hummer in a lobbying report weeks before they made a public announcement.
On an almost daily basis, hundreds of companies tease new technologies, ask for government loans, and bid on government contracts in their lobbying filings. Although this information has been made publicly available, it is incredibly difficult to understand and draw useful insight from.
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