Townhall
Brian McNicoll
July 14, 2018
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Bezos’ Amazon Web Services provided the data that helped President Obama get re-elected in 2012. With more than 100 lobbyists at more than a dozen agencies, his lobbying shop is now among the most powerful in Washington. He spent $13 million on lobbying last year, more than all but Google and AT&T, and five times what he spent just three years ago.
He’s joined the Alfalfa Club in Washington, where he hob-nobbed at a recent meeting with Ivanka Trump, George W. Bush, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mitt Romney, among others. He is said to talk to his friend, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, nearly every day.
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He pushed Congress to adopt the “Amazon amendment,†which would allow employees to bypass normal purchasing methods and buy more of their own supplies, from cleaning supplies to bottled water, through amazon.com and fell short only when other vendors, such as Home Depot, objected.
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