The recent school shootings in Florida and Maryland have focused attention on the National Rifle Association's clout in state and federal lobbying activities.

Yet more than the NRA or even Wall Street, it's the pharmaceutical industry that Americans think has the most muscle when it comes to policymaking.

A poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 72 percent of people think the drug industry has too much influence in Washington —outweighing the 69 percent who feel that way about Wall Street or the 52 percent who think the NRA has too much power. Only the large-business community outranked drugmakers. (Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)

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