BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : SEPTEMBER 18, 2000 ISSUE
GOVERNMENT

Help from "The Powerful"


Al Gore promises to protect ''working Americans'' from ''powerful 
interests.'' But Gore and the Democratic Party have raised more than $20 
million from the corporate interests and lobbyists the Veep has been 
denouncing.

INDUSTRY/   GORE       LIEBERMAN*  DEMOCRATIC  BUSH        REPUBLICAN
SECTOR                             PARTY                   PARTY

ENERGY      $263,960   $67,202     $4,366,715  $2,503,191  $10,780,500

HEALTH      1,047,674  276,297     5,713,662   3,582,108   8,684,586

INSURANCE   297,125    197,419     4,309,818   1,479,872   6,720,553

PHARMA-     87,350     91,150      2,671,778   392,565     4,588,531
CEUTICALS

TOBACCO     7,000      14,500      493,620     76,175      3,730,809

LOBBYISTS   635,655    41,049      714,832     644,403     878,125

* Lieberman's totals are for his 2000 Senate race

DATA: CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS


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