<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9e029739-7b11-41f9-9332-6cd1b3a3fb8c/B0E2A5D6-50EA-49AE-8E5F-9F89B43961E5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.pharmatimes.com/WorldNews/article.aspx?id=16793&src=WorldNewsRSS" href="http://www.pharmatimes.com/WorldNews/article.aspx?id=16793&src=WorldNewsRSS" style="font-size: 11px;">www.pharmatimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pharmatimes.com/WorldNews/article.aspx?id=16793&src=WorldNewsRSS"><DIV> US drugmakers and health insurers spent 30% more on political lobbying in the first nine months of 2009 than they did in the same period last year, new figures show.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pharmatimes.com/WorldNews/article.aspx?id=16793&src=WorldNewsRSS"><DIV>The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) spent almost as much during this January-September period as it did for the whole of last year, according to new reports from the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) and Time magazine. In the first six months of this year, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and their trade bodies spent about $609,000 a day to influence legislators, according to Time.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pharmatimes.com/WorldNews/article.aspx?id=16793&src=WorldNewsRSS"><DIV>Individual big spenders include Pfizer, whose lobbying spending for January-September this year is $16.3 million, up 83% on the same period of 2008, and Amgen, whose total of $9.1 million was an increase of about 20% on the like, year-earlier period, says the CRP.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B0E2A5D6-50EA-49AE-8E5F-9F89B43961E5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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