<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><response success="true" at="Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:40:07 -0800"><graph swivel-id="5107922" version="0"><name>Total Spent on Lobbying</name><description>Lobbying is the way big business makes things happen in Washington.  It seems that, over time, big business has needed more help than ever from Washington.  And they're paying for it.  Top spending sectors spent $2B in 2005, up substantially from the $1.4B in 1998.

Those lobbying firms are banking it.</description><tags></tags><views>6486</views><comments>1</comments><rating>0.0</rating><created-at>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:29:46 -0800</created-at><updated-at>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:01:27 -0800</updated-at><user swivel-id="1000010"><name>huned</name></user><graph-type>BarGraph</graph-type><variant>default</variant><list count="1" resource="data-column"><data-column swivel-id="1924350"><name>Total Spent by Top Sectors</name></data-column></list></graph></response>