lobbying Congress to avoid regulations that might have led us to understand better exactly the catastrophe they were
media lobbying communication strategies for several leading corporations in high-profile crisis situations before
And they are lobbying constantly for legislation.
They are lobbying for public policy that recognizes people with autism as whole people.
to blindness-- to lobbying for government to spend tax money on that sort of thing?
gas sector or the lobbying industry.
They've been lobbying the airline industry.
They are lobbying the government to prevent people from getting there DNA data.
It's corporations getting government contracts and lobbying for government surveillance.
But we're seeing industries lobbying for laws to make their business models more profitable.
Industries um are I I've been lobbying government in in this regard and there's quite a few open letters to the times
of E2 and you're not um lobbying on behalf of the environment in Sacramento
We can do it by lobbying one another.
There are friends of mine in the thorium movement who are lobbying hard to get something done.
The power that's exercised by a company lobbying the federal government to give them a tax cut is a great example of that company using their might
or fish came from is being fought tooth and nail by basically lobbying groups that represent packagers and all these things.
low and they haven't had the sort of support they need and they are lobbying government very powerfully to to try to
Um and I um immediately started lobbying for uh spinning off
the first 6 months of the Bush Administration Enron spent 2.5 million lobbying the Bush Administration to
through the bush administration and really made it possible for the oil industry to stop lobbying and start legislating and I go through in the book
They have influence on members of Congress not just because they do lobbying , right, and because they make campaign contributions -- the
But we're the smallest type of small businesses versus every Starbucks in New York City who has lobbying power and all this stuff.
should add a feature like that to it, you're doing lobbying .
Sort of reaching out to farmers on a local level or is that something that is lobbying territory?
but I believe it's not for environmentalists to pick the winners um what we should be doing is lobbying for the
The power that's exercised by a company lobbying the federal government to give them a tax cut is a great example
Because the second you start working with people and saying this is how the law should work, it becomes lobbying .
Or do you blame the climbers who all want to go up and are lobbying to let as many people go up at once.
Oran: I mean, listen it's always going to be lobbying territory, because you got a lot of vested interest in agribusiness to have things the way they are.
The Alliance For Taxpayer Access played a major role in lobbying for a precursor policy, the NIH open access policy
Creative Commons which many of you will know but not necessarily for their scientific work have also done similarly lobbying work.
And then I asked him about, um, sitting on the Board of Freeport McMoRan and how Freeport McMoRan, the gold and copper mining company in, ah, in Indonesia, was lobbying