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The history of lobbying in the United States is a chronicle of the rise of paid advocacy generally by special interests seeking favor in lawmaking bodies such as the United States Congress. Lobbying has usually been understood as activity by paid professionals to try to influence key legislators and executives, which is different from the right ...
Pages in category "Lobbying organizations in the United States" The following 122 pages are in this category, out of 122 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Big Seven is a group of non-partisan, non-profit organizations whose members include United States state and local government officials: Council of State Governments; International City/County Management Association; National Association of Counties; National Conference of State Legislatures; National Governors Association; National League ...
He received $270,000 between the fourth quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2024, when he ended his lobbying work, according to federal lobbying registrations.
Lobbying can have a strong influence on the political system; for example, a study in 2014 suggested that special interest lobbying enhanced the power of elite groups and was a factor shifting the nation's political structure toward an oligarchy in which average citizens have "little or no independent influence". [3]
For a full list of all the groups (all 175 of them) that have spent $10,000 or more lobbying the state legislature in January and February, read below: The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce: $105,310.
Interest groups spent a record $4.2 billion lobbying federal lawmakers in 2023, led by the pharmaceutical and health products industries, according to a new report by OpenSecrets. According to the ...
The AFL-CIO was a major component of the New Deal Coalition that dominated politics into the mid-1960s. [10] Although it has lost membership, finances, and political clout since 1970, it remains a major player on the liberal side of national politics, with a great deal of activity in lobbying, grassroots organizing, coordinating with other liberal organizations, fund-raising, and recruiting ...