Top defense contracting companies reap the benefits meant for small businesses

Nearly 250 former members of Congress and agency heads register to lobby

Nearly 500 companies lobby the tax agency

Hundreds of companies push their agendas with the GAO, FEC and OGE

Almost 80 members of Congress used corporate lobbyists to head their fund-raising committees

At least 19 former staff members are lobbyists

What is permissible? Out of bounds? Punishable?

Like DeLay's committee, groups run by 30 other members of Congress took corporate money and transferred funds to national party accounts

WASHINGTON, October 28, 2005 — Most people have heard tales of the dead casting ballots in Chicago or Philadelphia, but there's another form