"President Obama notched two hard-fought legislative victories this year with the passage of the healthcare and financial-services reform bills.
But the wins for the White House didn’t necessarily translate to defeats for the affected industries.
Both of those laws — massive reconfigurations of America’s healthcare and financial services sectors — had niches and loopholes carved out by lobbyists for various companies, sometimes protecting or even boosting their firms’ bottom lines."
The Top 10 lobbying victories of 2010
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