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State spends $130,000 on Washington, D.C. law firm for lobbying
The state has paid at least $130,000 this year to a Washington, D.C., law firm to lobby Congress on behalf of NJ Transit — a tactic criticized last year as “wasteful and unnecessary spending” by Governor Christie.
NJ Transit last year hired Patton Boggs to fight the federal government’s demands that the state return $271 million spent toward building a new Hudson River tunnel before Christie killed the project in October. (Rouse and Jackson, The Record)