See how all 65 teams in this year's NCAA Tournament rank according to how much they've spent lobbying Congress in recent years. (Hint: a humble #13 seed is #1 nationally in this list!)
Check out www.therealmarchmadness.com for the details
From the Wall St.Journal
March is the season that Members typically receive courtside or sky box seats for NCAA games across the country -- for free. Public universities offer these as thank you gifts for lucrative earmarks.
Perhaps you recall that Congress is promising a lobbying reform that will bar Members from receiving gifts from lobbyists. Make that from some lobbyists.
Public universities, local governments and Indian tribes would be conveniently exempt from that gift ban -- for the largely political and bizarre reason that the Members seem to think that only "private" purposes are corrupting.
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