The search giant already runs an established lobbying office in town with low double-digit numbers of hired hands.

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Since 1996 a new corporate alliance called the China Normalisation Initiative has worked out of Boeing's lobbying office in Washington.

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"Mickey Mouse is not a Republican or a Democrat, " said Joe Shapiro, who oversaw Disney's Washington lobbying office in the early 1990s.

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