This will be heartbreaking for many of you to hear, but it seems that Comcast and Time Warner Cable spent a total of $32 million lobbying the government to sign off on their merger and they still didn't get what they wanted. In a big Politico report called "Collapse of Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger shows limits of lobbying," we learn that Comcast and TWC pulled out all the stops to get their merger approved but that it still wasn't enough.
Comcast and TWC lit $32 million on fire lobbying the government to pass their merger