The furthest off-piste they go is Anne Krueger's 1974 article on rent-seeking, explaining why people may lobby for governments to distort the economy.
It seemed to take a big hit exactly a week ago when he jetted across the Atlantic to lobby for Chicago to get the 2016 Olympics — and was rejected with a last-place finish.
Early last year, Merck announced that it would no longer actively lobby for state mandates.
However, Keidanren, the lobby for big business, opposes deregulation on the ground that TEPCO and its ilk ensure a stable supply of electricity.
Deborah Doane of the world Development Movement, a lobby for "fairer world trade", points out that donor money only buys half as much food as it did a decade ago.
And the billionaire himself seizes every opportunity to lobby for the end of the traditional Western toilet.
NGOs now lobby for convicts' rights, and lawyers argue that the issue is not between death-row convicts and the rest of the citizenry but of overweening state power over all.
But New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg had earlier pushed for harsh punishment, threatening to lobby for severe federal criminal charges instead of a misdemeanor.
We should do something to lobby for higher subsidies.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise that sales and marketing folks lobby for bending the interface to serve beginners. They demand that training wheels be attached to the product to help out the struggling beginner.
They also lobby for government aid and band together to fight private oligopolies that sell seed and buy corn.
"You can lobby for better projects and ask for assignments that will showcase your skills and heighten your credibility," Wendleton notes — but don't be surprised if you don't get them.
Conservative speakers came to lobby for what election-wonks call a "sandwich" : a pair of constituencies made up of urban, suburban and rural slices.
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