The Real Power in D.C.: Agencies, Lobbyists, and Private Interests

It's just amazing how dangerous nutrition facts become when they threaten our pharmaceutical revenue stream, right? Isn't that where we are today? I mean, Yeah. I mean, the K Street firm law firms uh for the better part of 60 years uh have have, you know, they represent all sorts of big companies and they're there in Washington working on getting the agencies that regulate to increase their regulation in ways that will protect their clients and by by blocking uh market entry, making it more difficult to get into either the communications business or uh the drug industry or whatever industry it is, oil and gas, whatever, to try to protect the industry incumbents from competition. That has been the legal game. Pay the the the most expensive lawyers and the most sophisticated legal minds have been involved with for decades and decades. This is how Washington works. You want to, you want to see how Washington works? Every day, armies of lobbyists go into the agencies. 250 different agencies. You don't have to go to Congress, they do also, but you don't have to go to Congress because all the power is in the agencies. The agencies make ...