<p><span id="internal-source-marker_0.263693829790542" style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The US Chamber of Commerce has dominated corporate lobbying in Washington for the past several years. The Chamber spent <a href="http://shutthechamber.org/news/nytimes-45-anonymous-corporate-donors-pro...$144.5 million</a> in lobbying in 2009, which largely went toward fighting the Affordable Care Act. That same year, American Health Insurance Providers donated over <a href="http://shutthechamber.org/news/bloomberg-ahip-provided-more-half-us-cham...$86 million</a> to the US Chamber for lobbying purposes. The Chamber&#39;s lobbying expenditures in 2009 were five times as high as the next highest spender: Exxon Mobil, at $27.4 million. In 2010, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent $132,000,000 on lobbying Congress, which was more than the second, third and fourth largest lobbying groups combined. In 2012, the US Chamber was ranked <a href="http://shutthechamber.org/news/opensecrets-us-chamber-ranks-1-lobbyist-s... in lobbyist spending</a> out of over 4,300 registered lobbyists in Washington, spending over $132 million.</span></p>