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Center. i couldn't believe it has been ten years. take us back to the genesis of the idea. >> this was a simple idea. we had black friday, cyber monday, what about giving tuesday, thinking about how we could all give back. and that idea started at the 92nd street y but has grown all around the world and is now in 80 countries. last year in the u.s. alone, it generated over $2.47 billion in support of the nonprofit industry. and i think it is such a good example that caught on like wildfire at a time where there are so many bad stories, so many stories about things that divide us. this is a sto...

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Use those names to raise money. scratch whatever plans you may have had. something very interesting by dana bash on the ticker. that is for the first time in ten years lobbying, the cost of lobbying, in washington went down. meaning the -- sorry. >> the amount of money spent on it. >> the amount of money spent on lobbying went down. but before we, you know, make too much of it, they still spent $3.47 billion, corporations, unions, et cetera. it's not exactly a possity of dollars running around washington. a story i really like about shannon travis again on the ticker is in his second year, p...

>> congressman scalise, i have a couple of questions. we just got the total lobbying number for '09. this represents everybody from labor unions and all the rest of it to bankers and big oil to peta. $3.47 billion went to congress in 2009. that's a big number. but let me put it in context for you. between 1998 and 2009, i want you to look at the growth which is even more startling, an explosion in the flow of money to washington, d.c. now, in the financial world, which is largely my history, you put a lot more money into something that's working. so in other words, if lobbying with money was n...