From an article on Politico.com:
The number of lobbyists registered to represent overseas interests before the U.S. government has stayed nearly constant over the past year, according to figures compiled by the Justice Department.
The figures contradict a story that ran in Wednesday's edition of The Politico, which reported a sharp increase in the number of lobbyists representing foreign entities since the end of 2005.
The story was inaccurate, an error resulting from apparent misunderstanding between a Politico reporter and a spokesman for the Justice Department's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Office.
The number of foreign agents registered as of Dec. 31, 2005, was 1,881, according to figures provided by Dean Boyd, spokesman for the National Security Division at the DOJ, and confirmed on the department's website. As of June 22, 2007, the most recent date for which figures are available, the number dipped slightly, to 1,862.
The Politico story, by reporter Jeff Patch, quoted lobbyists from several large Washington firms saying they are reorienting their business more toward foreign business....
Thanks, David!
