The jobs always seems to go to EDS anyway who invariably fuck up and overrun and then settle with the .gov and carry on anyway.

Would be interesting to see environmental, petrochemical and entertainment industry lobbying activity though, especially when correlated with various news coverage associated with relevant events and articles of similar dates.

Who knows, you might even be able to infer the validity of these increasingly annoying 'global warming' alerts and stuff

And if you don't register as a lobbyist, you don't get access...

It's corruption. Low level, but still corruption. And seeking to evade registration should be *heavily* punished.