And members of Congress are pretty loathe to go against the farm lobby and to go against agriculture in election year.

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Apart from inconveniences like having to go uptown to sit in a hotel lobby to send an email and not having had a hot shower for six days, my main concern is what will happen to the oldest part of Manhattan.

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That led to one European Union parliament member, Sweden's Olle Schmidt, to lobby for a EU special delegation to go to the Sinai.

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Rather than lobby government to go after one another, Silicon Valley lobbyists should unite to go after overreaching government.

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But the president elect knows Christopher as a cautious lawyer bred for quiet argumentation and persuasion, not an infighter who could go toe-to-toe with that lobby.

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Yet the steel lobby is unlikely to go away empty-handed.

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It will go into effect next March if the soda lobby fails to contest it successfully.

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The extra cash will go on setting up a year-round field operation to lobby all levels of government.

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