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Tech firms spent $61m to influence Washington last year

By Washington Examiner

Published January 24, 2014 5:00am ET

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Google and other tech firms spent more than $61 million on lobbying the federal government last year, TechCrunch reports.

The site looks at numbers from Consumer Watchdog and OpenSecrets.org, the website of the Center for Responsive Politics.

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