Industry analysts have calculated that combined spending to lobby the US government into overruling the UIGEA law has been estimated at $5.16 million during the first quarter of 2010. The group of gambling companies comprise of at least 36 different companies with the biggest spender Harrah’s Entertainment spending an estimated $1.22 million during this period. The figure is a 73% increase over it’s lobbying expenditure back in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Other companies in the mix include the Poker Players Alliance at $785,000, UC Group at $717,239, US Chamber of Commerce at $664,442 and the Interactive Gaming Council at $412,580. The US Chamber of Commerce actually reduced it’s lobbying expenditure by 66 percent which meant that the overall figure of $5.16 million is down by 16 percent from fourth quarter 2009.

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