Several groups with infrastructure stake reported expenditures 37%-plus above 2020; Contractors worked with NAM, ChamberRepublican critics said last year's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill was inflationary. To combat that and other objections, many associations pumped up their advocacy budgets. There was a lot at stake: It's the biggest infrastructure spending package since the Eisenhower administration.Of the dozen biggest-spending associations to increase lobbying expenditures by more than a third in 2021, more than half had a heavy interest in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. The spending figures are based on required quarterly disclosures to Congress under the… Read More