Moreover, large farmers are often well-connected and spend more time lobbying for special favours than doing the hard work.
If Detroit had spent less time lobbying for government protection and more on improving its products it might have fared better.
Now 56, Critelli spends most of his time lobbying for postal reforms to benefit Pitney Bowes, such as variable pricing for commercial mail to stimulate demand in off-peak hours.
Even if Obama and McCain steer clear of any future lobbying pratfalls, they and other politicians will have plenty of face time with business and lobbying groups in Denver and Minneapolis.
This is probably why the special interests have spent a lot of time and money lobbying to kill or weaken the bill.
One relative spent a month of 13-hour days lobbying chat rooms, but each time one site took down a photo it emerged elsewhere.
Because the big lobbying firms spend a lot of time putting together a one and two page glossy sheet, well-written, that gets the point across very well.
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For a long time, however, the group's lobbying efforts got nowhere.
"If Crossrail does get the go-ahead he would be lobbying for it to be pushed through as quickly as possible in time for the Olympics, " she said.
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The endorsement from AARP, which represents 35 million Americans aged 50 and over and is a muscular lobbying force on Capitol Hill, couldn't have come at a better time for Bush and congressional GOP supporters.
They pile the lobbying pressure on with warnings that incentives for investment need to keep coming, and under time pressure, if ageing equipment is to be used to squeeze more out of emptying reservoirs.
The script, by Aaron Sorkin, wastes no time setting him up with a nice girl (Annette Bening), who is lobbying him for tougher environmental laws.
That's a long time relative to other deals the government has inked with some big names in the Washington lobbying-PR nexus.
The two men resigned from the board last year and have been lobbying fellow shareholders to remove Mr Eisner at the company's annual meeting in three weeks' time.
"Just as we commend our troops, it is time to do our job, " said House Budget committee chairman Jim Nussle, after intense lobbying of moderate Republicans by Vice-President Dick Cheney and White House chief of staff Andrew Card.
One Republican congressional aide who received the e-mails this week expressed surprise that a lobbying firm with such close ties to the White House would attack al-Maliki at such a pivotal time on the debate over the war, just weeks before Bush provides a progress report to the nation.
At the same time, the industries that the technical tax process has spawned are now very powerful, with significant lobbying and communication ability.
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