代表货运业、家禽养殖业以及木材业的利益团体说，如果增加他们的大卡车税费，他们将无法承受，最后只能减少大卡车的数量。

The trucking, poultry, and timber interests said they couldn't afford the increases on their big trucks, and they got them reduced.

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虽然他高调的说着有关改变华府运作的方式，但是实际上欧巴马先生在推出他的方案之前很小心的和几个最有影响力的利益团体做了互动。

For all his high-toned talk about changing Washington’s ways, Mr Obama was careful to co-opt the most powerful interest groups in advance.

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“这种标签酝酿了很长时间，”公众利益科学中心（位于华盛顿的一个消费者保护团体）的迈克尔·雅各布孙说。

"These labels have been a long time coming, " says Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington D. C. -based consumer advocacy group. "It's been 10 years.

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