In the spirit of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the Center for Responsive Politics has developed its own bracket, the K Street College Classic, based on the federal lobbying expenditures of the tournament teams. Texas A&M University, at $900,000, is the national champion in that regard. In all, the colleges in this year’s tournament spent $12-million on lobbying last year.
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3 Responses to Texas A&M Takes Title in Federal Lobbying
masmcnw - March 18, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Whoop!
javelina - March 18, 2010 at 4:34 pm
The $900,000 is a bit misleading, I believe. Having once worked for a Texas A&M campus (not College Station), I know that the lobbying efforts are consolidated across the entire A&M System – which encompasses 11 educational institutions, 1 health science center and 7 state agencies. The A&M brand literally can be found in virtually every one of Texas’ 250-plus counties. All this to say that the $900,000 wasn’t expended out of one campus.
germanic - March 20, 2010 at 11:08 am
using that logic, javelina, shouldn’t the 64-campus SUNY system be on top of this game?