"I've spent a bit of time today using ForeignLobbying.org to pull recent information about Egypt and its neighbors lobbying inside the United States. Comparing one country's contracts to another's, you get a sense of just how assiduously Egypt worked its connections. An October visit from the Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament led to meetings with the staffs of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Steve Cohen, Rep. Jim Costa, Rep. Gregory Meeks, Rep. Yvette Clarke, and more. Not so huge. But another visit from Egypt's Grand Mufti gets person-to-person meetings with Rep. Keith Ellison, Rep. Steve Scalise, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Rep. Gene Green, Rep. Jim Himes, and the staffs of Rep. Barbara Lee and others."
Lobbyists and the Arab World
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