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Citizens' Climate Lobby; The Clearing House; The Clearing House Payments Company; Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform; Coalition for Patent Fairness; Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service
Stanley K. Young, Texas Legislative Handbook (1973). Univ. of Tex., The Legislative Branch in Texas Politics, (last accessed Oct. 8, 2006) (stating that "The Texas Legislature is the most powerful of the three main branches of government[,]" primarily because it is "less weak than the other branches"). See also: Texas Government Newsletter
Expelled following Texas's secession from the U.S. 1862 Nathan G. Shelley (D) American Civil War: American Civil War/no delegations seated: 1863 Pendleton Murrah (D) [d] Fletcher Stockdale (D) Stephen Crosby (D) 1864 Benjamin E. Tarver (D) no electors counted: 1865 Fletcher Stockdale (D) [b] vacant: William Alexander (U) Willis L. Robards (D ...
One of several pro-Israel lobbying organizations in the country, [5] it has been called one of its most powerful lobbying groups. [6] AIPAC was founded in 1954 by Isaiah L. Kenen, a lobbyist for the Israeli government, [7] [8] partly to counter negative international reactions to Israel's Qibya massacre of Palestinian villagers that year. [1]
The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. There are no term limits. The House meets at the State Capitol in Austin.
The healthcare industry is the second largest industry lobbying group in the United States behind the finance sector. It donated more than $600 million to politicians ahead of the 2020 elections.
The goal of AARP, the lobbying group for retired Americans, is to take advantage of young people, particularly millennials. Certainly, they don't admit that explicitly, but their efforts to prop ...
Lobbying depends on cultivating personal relationships over many years. Photo: Lobbyist Tony Podesta (left) with former Senator Kay Hagan (center) and her husband.. Generally, lobbyists focus on trying to persuade decision-makers: Congress, executive branch agencies such as the Treasury Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, [16] the Supreme Court, [17] and state governments ...