Interest groups spent $17.4 million for every day Congress was in session. Lobbying growth for finance sector and auto industry is smaller in tough times. WASHINGTON--While companies across the board were losing record amounts of money and laying off employees last year, at least one industry s...

Name: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) Position: Frank will continue his role as chair of the House Financial Services Committee, which he undertook in 2007, just before the country's economy started to slip into a recession. The Democrat had been the ranking member of the committee, which has jurisdicti...