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Egypt lobby in the United States

The Egypt lobby in the United States is a collection of lawyers, public relation firms and professional lobbyists paid directly by the Egyptian government to lobby the United States public and government on behalf of the interests of the Egyptian government.

Goals
A key goal of Egypt's lobbyists is securing a large allocation of foreign aid; more than $50 billion in American aid has gone to the countrty since 1975. According to ProPublica, the massive amount of American aid has "enabled" the Egyptian government to postpone democratic reform. ==History==
History
Mubarak regime According to ProPublica, in 2007to 2008, Egypt ranked sixth in a list of the number of meetings between lobbyists for foreign governments and congressmen. In the lobbying campaign, a former Connecticut Representative, Toby Moffat, told his former colleagues that the bill "would be viewed as an insult" and that it would be wrong to insult an important ally. "We were just saying to them, 'Don't do this now to our friends in Egypt,'" he said. In the wake of President Mubarak's resignation, lobbyists Podesta, Moffat, and Livingston continue to share "a joint, multimillion-dollar (lobbying) contract with Egypt." In July, Weber Shandick ended its $1.2 million contract with EGIS after poor publicity, associated with Egypt's human rights abuses. In addition to the EGIS contract, the Egyptian government also paid $2 million to the lobbying firm Glover Park Group. ==References==
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