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• Lobbying
  ...vernment or the voting in a legislature. Contrary to some popular opinion, lobbying is not synonymous with bribery, but often is a process of informing the off | date = 27 November 2009 }}</ref>, there are new initiatives to regulate lobbying.
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• Lobbying/Definition
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• Lobbying/Related Articles
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• Family Research Council/Definition
  A lobbying spinoff of [[Focus on the Family]]; Affiliate, [[Alliance Defense Fund]]
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• Secular Coalition for America/Definition
  A lobbying organization for a coalition of nonprofit nontheistic groups, including [[a
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• Lobbying
  ...vernment or the voting in a legislature. Contrary to some popular opinion, lobbying is not synonymous with bribery, but often is a process of informing the off | date = 27 November 2009 }}</ref>, there are new initiatives to regulate lobbying.
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• Interest group/Definition
  ...rofit organization|non-profit]]) that represents its members' interests by lobbying, publishing, or other activities, and may publish information presented as
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• Vin Weber/Definition
  CEO and Managing Partner of [[Clark & Weinstock]], a strategy and lobbying firm; senior fellow, Humphrey Institute, [[University of Minnesota]]; chair
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• J Street/Definition
  A U.S. lobbying organization, formed in 2008, positioned as an advocate of a [[two-state so
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• Coffee Party/Related Articles
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• Citizens United/Definition
  ...Election Commission]]'' case; the [[American Sovereignty Project]] is its lobbying arm
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• Members' Lobby/Related Articles
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• David Keene/Definition
  ...[[American Conservative Union]]; managing associate at the Carmen Group, a lobbying firm; Board of Directors, [[National Rifle Association]]; Co-chair, Libert
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• Whip (political)
  ...oting and maximizing the vote for his or her organization. As opposed to [[lobbying|lobbyists]] or legislative staff, whips are voting members of the organizat
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• Citizens United
  The [[American Sovereignty Project]] is its lobbying arm, whose major objectives are "complete U.S. withdrawal from the [[United
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• Whip (political)/Related Articles
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• Brit Tzedek v'Shalom
  ...ld join its estimated 50,000 grass-roots members and 1,000 rabbis with the lobbying and political organization, [[J Street]]. <ref name=BT-J>{{citation ==Lobbying==
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• Interest group
  ...ganization|non-profit]]) that seeks to represent its members' interests by lobbying, publishing, or other activities, and may publish information presented as ...ve in trying to influence the public (if not overtly engaging in political lobbying), and their activities may include the publication of alleged expert analys
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• National Rifle Association
  ...e not approved by the organization, and for being one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the U.S. But as of 2024, amid frequent mass shootings in the U.S ...the organization was not concerned with public policy; it did very little lobbying, and was more concerned with developing gun safety classes. The group’s
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• Rent-seeking
  ...individual or a firm's [[economic rent]]. Examples include [[bribery]], [[lobbying]] to pass government regulations in one's favor, manipulation of market env
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• American Association of Retired Persons
  ...cond only to the [[National Rifle Association]] among the 25 most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, where it has its headquarters. According to its websi ...lf of senior citizens. AARP annually spends a percentage of its revenue in lobbying politicians at the state and federal level. According to its website its go
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• National Immigration Forum
  ...are valuable for America. As an interest group, it conducts research and lobbying to help policy makers create well-informed conclusions about immigration po The total spent on lobbying for 2008 was $160,000 and for 2007 was $100,000.
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• Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem
  ...d around Jerusalem, antiquarian research, charitable works, and diplomatic lobbying.
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• Free State Project
  ...hey feel best supports their political goals: for some this will be direct lobbying, running for office, raising funds or supporting a political party like the
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• John A. Burns
  ...he was elected Delegate from Hawaii. As Delegate he played a key role in lobbying for Hawaii statehood, a goal that was achieved on [[March 12]], [[1959]], w
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• Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
  JINSA, however, differentiates itself from the classic lobbying organizations such as American Israel Public Affairs Committee, concentrati
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• Freedomworks
  ...Economy was a conservative think tank and Empower America an issues-based lobbying group.
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• Interest group/Related Articles
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• National Right to Life Committee
  ...group as number 8 on its "Power 25" list, which ranks the most influential lobbying groups in Washington. It disagrees that NRLC is limited to abortion and eut
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• British Association for Applied Linguistics
  ...d April 2006.</ref> but has stopped short of active [[politics|political]] lobbying; it remains a primarily academic institution, despite occasional forays int
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• Tariff of 1846, U.S.
  ...he most effective organizers of grassroots campaigns were not professional lobbying agents, but members of Congress and the executive branch.
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• Electronic Frontier Foundation
  ...appeared in a variety of other countries to engage in activism, political lobbying and litigation: Electronic Frontiers Australia, Electronic Frontiers Canada
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• Dick Armey
  ...or "lower taxes, less government, and more freedom". He also works in the lobbying division of a law firm, DLA Piper LLP. He retired as U.S. House Majority Le
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• Marijuana Policy Project
  The MPP has three main branches within the organization. There is a lobbying branch, an educational branch, and a political action committee.
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• Murder
  ...meone who is able to control the "market forces" through policy setting or lobbying. Not all acts of assassination are performed by rational individuals, howe
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• J. Franklin Jameson
  .... He began numerous annual publications and, with [[Waldo Leland]] started lobbying Congress to create a National Archives, which was first funded in 1926. Tro
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• Michael Moore
  ...escribes the creation of [[Health Maintenance Organizations]] in 1973, the lobbying arm of the pharmaceutical industry and the politics of introducing single-p
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• Traditional Values Coalition
  ....traditionalvalues.org/about.php}}</ref> TVC proper describes itself as a "lobbying organization", while "its sister organization, Traditional Values Coalition ...ions, in communicating with the public, to go through the registration and lobbying requirements of lobbyists. <ref name=ACLU>{{citation
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• National Council of La Raza
  ...NCLR has come under fire from right-wing organizations for what they call "lobbying for illegal aliens." [[Lou Dobbs]] has often criticized them.
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• National Taxpayers Union
  It has a staff of approximately 20. NTU proper is principally a lobbying organization. There are two subordinate organizations:<ref name=RWW>{{citat
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• Rhode Island College
  ...of the General Assembly in 1854. Its founding was the result of energetic lobbying by [[Henry Barnard]], the first state agent for education in [[Rhode Island
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• John Tanton
  *[[Federation for American Immigration Reform]], a lobbying organization, which he founded and on whose board he remains,
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• Anti-nuclear movement
  ...sinessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EHS0580.htm Nuclear group spent $460,000 lobbying in 4Q] ''Business Week'', March 19, 2010.</ref> and concerns about [[climat
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• Prince Edward Island
  ...s grouped with [[Nova Scotia]] for administrative purposes. In 1769, after lobbying by the landowners, the Island was given its own Governorship and administra
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• Gadsden Purchase
  ...tion. Antislavery senators opposed further acquisition of slave territory. Lobbying by speculators gave the treaty a bad reputation. Some senators objected to
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• Focus on the Family
  ...by separating out of Focus on the Family those activities which constitute lobbying under the IRS code so that they can be expanded in scope."<ref name=AFA>{{c
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• Anti-Saloon League/Citable Version
  The '''Anti-Saloon League''' was the leading organization lobbying for [[Prohibition in the United States]] in the early 20th century. It was
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• Vin Weber
  '''Vin Weber''' (1952-) is Managing Partner of [[Clark & Weinstock]], a lobbying and policy advisory firm. He chairs the [[National Endowment for Democracy]
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• Anti-Saloon League
  The '''Anti-Saloon League''' was the leading organization lobbying for [[Prohibition in the United States]] in the early 20th century. It was
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• Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127)
  ...a hydrogen design. However it is now known that Eckener was successful in lobbying the U.S. government for the purchase of Hydrogen but ruled it out on financ
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• House of Commons (United Kingdom)
  ...om individuals or companies who lobby for a fee on behalf of others. The lobbying industry has been described as a £2 billion industry with a huge presence
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• McNary-Haugen Bill
  ...s of sending their president, Charles E. Hearst, to Washington on extended lobbying trips. Though the legislation ultimately failed, twice in Congress and twic
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• Open-access journal
  ...eriments with providing as much free or open access as possible, to active lobbying against open access proposals. There are many new publishers starting up as
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