The 12-member panel tasked with coming up with $1.2 trillion in spending cuts was a golden opportunity for lobbyists to try to reach an elite concentration of powerful lawmakers. But now that the committee has admitted defeat, lobbyists’ work is far from over.
“The [supercommittee] deadline is gone but the issues remain,” said lobbyist John Feehery of Quinn Gillespie & Associates. “Congress is going to have to do something. The big question is when? It’s shifted from a supercommitte strategy to a lame duck strategy.”
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