NPR Asks You To 'Name That Lobbyist'
NPR turned their camera to the audience instead of the senators involved in crafting legislation and asks readers to "name that lobbyist." When 22
NPR turned their camera to the audience instead of the senators involved in crafting legislation and asks readers to "name that lobbyist."
When 22 senators started working over the first health care overhaul bill on June 17, the news cameras were pointed at them -- except for NPR's photographer, who turned his lens on the lobbyists. Whatever bill emerges from Congress will affect one-sixth of the economy, and stakeholders have mobilized. We've begun to identify some of the faces in the hearing room, and we want to keep the process going. Know someone in these photos? Let us know who that someone is -- e-mail dollarpolitics@npr.org or let us know via Twitter @DollarPolitics.
This is pretty cool. They aren't doing a Michael Savage on them, but pointing out how much the Health Care Industrial Complex is invested in what happens with health care reform.