The Fixed Fortune 200 is a meticulously compiled list of the biggest Corporate Influencers of our "for the People" Government -- a list brought to us by the hard-working citizen watchdogs at OpenSecrets.org and the Sunlight Foundation.
Here is the top half of that very influential list. Who says Corporations aren't persons, my friends? ... Most of our members of Congress, certainly don't.
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Here is the data source page for the Fixed Fortune 200, thanks again to OpenSecrets.org. Here's is the HTML version -- which has "drill down links" that connect you to the supporting data.
The good folks at OpenSecrets explains their Creative Commons work as follows:
Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions. A year-long analysis by the Sunlight Foundation suggests, however, that what they gave pales compared to what those same corporations got: $4.4 trillion in federal business and support.
That figure, more than the $4.3 trillion the federal government paid the nation’s 50 million Social Security recipients over the same period, is the result of an unprecedented effort to quantify the less-examined side of the campaign finance equation: Do political donors get something in return for what they give?
Four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court suggested the answer to that question was no. Corporate spending to influence federal elections would not “give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption,” the majority wrote in the landmark Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision.
Sunlight decided to test that premise by examining influence and its potential results on federal decision makers over six years, three before the 2010 Citizens United decision and three after.
I just thought you might like to know about these not so trivial corporate influence details. Bring them out into the "Sunlight" so to speak.
Now only a Click away. Say Hello to the Fixed Fortune 200. Introduce them to your friends and associates, who care about our "Of, By, and For the People" Democracy.