Major Influence Peddlers Fill Capitol Hill Newspapers With Advertisements on Congress' Inauguration Day

OpenSecrets:
"Nothing says lobbying like splashing your company's name in bright colors across the pages of Capitol Hill's three must-read specialty publications on the first day of a new congressional session.

In all, 13 corporations, unions or special interest groups that lobby the federal government purchased at least one full-page advertisement in today's print editions of Roll Call, The Hill or Politico, an OpenSecrets Blog review of the newspapers indicates. And 10 of these 13 groups spent at least $1 million during the first nine months of 2010 on their federal lobbying efforts."