That only encourages the steel lobby, among others, to demand further concessions.
For months Humana and the wider insurance lobby have been among ObamaCare's most prominent cheerleaders, with the exception of Advantage cuts and the public option even though they'll be converted into government contractors in the business of fulfilling whatever Congress happens to dictate.
Among those signatories are two names that are prominent among the Iran Lobby network of influential Washington-based organizations.
He receives top marks from the American Conservative Union, National Right to Life Committee and the National Rifle Association (among other conservative lobby groups).
Mr Howard's critics, mainly among the pro-Indonesia lobby, say the referendum should never have been held, certainly not until democracy was more strongly established in Indonesia itself.
Many Shamir admirers among the Democrats' pro-Israel lobby blame Bush for Shamir's defeat.
Thanks to, among other things, the activities of the foreign trade lobby (which in the last year has worked harder than ever to persuade us that China was on the brink of collapse or at least was losing its mojo), China hardly figured in the 2012 presidential campaign.
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Minimum-wage campaigns can galvanize progressive groups to turn out at the polls or lobby elected officials, but they tend to have a more difficult time gaining traction among employers in a stagnate economy, economic analysts said.
The growing use of English courts by foreign litigants is arousing increasing concern among free-speech campaigners such as Chris Walker of Freedom House, an American lobby group.
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The Justice Secretary has said that there is "anger and incredulity" among Labour MPs over allegations that a number of ex-cabinet ministers were prepared to lobby ministers for cash.
These then morphed into "banks for bankers" - clearing houses which would mop up liquidity among the middle and upper classes and spread it through the private banking system (in the lobby of the Bank of England there is a nice painting of the English bourgeoisie queuing up at Threadneedle Street on Dividend Day by George Elgar Hicks).
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