In 2007 there were approximately 17,000 federal lobbyists in Washington.

It includes details of nearly 2,600 corporations that employ a federal lobbyist.

Obama has said he will not accept donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees during the campaign.

Furthermore he maintained that he would not take contributions from federal lobbyists and special interests during his 2008 presidential campaign.

But in a last-ditch gambit, city officials hired a federal lobbyist who had known the local congressman for four decades.

In 2001, Bilbray registered as a federal lobbyist.

The county has hired a federal lobbyist to represent its interests.

The transition project would not accept money from political action committees or federal lobbyists.

A 2011 estimate suggested that nearly 5,400 former congressional staffers had become federal lobbyists over a ten-year period, and 400 lawmakers made a similar jump.

In 1989, he became a federal lobbyist for the Magazine Publishers of America.