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Julie Kosterlitz has covered a wide range of national political and public policy issues for National Journal since 1985. She has written extensively about social welfare and economics as well as finance and foreign policy. She is currently covering lobbying. Before joining National Journal, Kosterlitz spent four years as an investigative reporter for Common Cause Magazine. Kosterlitz received a B.A. in history with honors at the University of California, Santa Cruz.