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lobby

Individual or pressure group that sets out to influence government action. The lobby is prevalent in the USA, where the term originated in the 1830s from the practice of those wishing to influence state policy waiting for elected representatives in the lobby of the Capitol.

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Under the UK lobby system, certain parliamentary journalists are given unofficial access to confidential news.
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Lobbyists' expenditure reports now will include information on their compensation, the issue being lobbied, and business relationships with public officials and their spouses.
The influence business: lobbyists help shape public policy, but in ... by Kerns, Peggy / State Legislatures
This threat sent a chill through state mental health associations, all of whom lobbied state legislatures aggressively to improve care in state mental hospitals.
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Thus far, they have lobbied opposing the so-called "Clear Skies" bill that would gut the Clean Air Act, supporting the "527" Reform Act, opposing privatizing Social Security, and supporting the SAFE Act and the scheduled expiration of the more troubling provisions of the Patriot Act.
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