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The Center for Public Integrity (Washington, DC) investigates the most heavily lobbied legislative initiative in US history; the investigation found that special interest groups cumulatively spent over $100 million to influence the outcome of health care reform. The story found that some committee members accepted political action committee contributions from health-care related interests, 85 members of Congress participated in trips sponsored by the health care industry and that 40 members of Congress with jurisdiction over health care legislation had health-care related investments in 1993, July 21, 1994.