How to pronounce “lobbyists”(noun) in English

the lobbyists, the lobbyists, individual lobbyists for individual companies, their interest is seen as, as important, if not more important, than the broader public.

And so the lobbyists got to Congress people-- and this is the frozen food and tomato lobbyists and the pizza lobbyists-- got to Congress

by whatever the lobbyists come in and deliver.

role that lobbyists play in this economy of influence right this economy of

the high-powered lobbyists that the people on the copyright holders do like the mpa and the Raa if they were them

I've spoken to actually political lobbyists.

It's been taken over by lobbyists.

And we are not registered lobbyists, so we have to, by law, keep it to about 20% of our total resource allocation,

10 times increase in the number of lobbyists in Washington, DC.

imagine that institution and those people--the lobbyists, the members of Congress, the staffers, the bureaucrats--ever organizing to change that deeply corrupt system?

and the interest behind them and the lobbyists who are paying for the campaigns that determine the shape of things, determine the nature of proposals, determine what gets in and out

Clinton left office the number of lobbyists in Washington has doubled the

price per hour of those lobbyists has doubled as well now if you've got a market where the supply is going up and

You've hired some nice-priced lobbyists in Washington -- contradiction.

mean it's amazing they all had lobbyists they all paid off people they had an incredible arbitrage

And I'd go to hearings where the lobbyists for the flame retardant industry would be saying it's not sound science to say there's

The only thing they didn't mention was lobbyists, how it really works.

And it disenfranchises the rest of us because the lobbyists can get the rules written in their favor.

The aggressors are-- I don't know, the lobbyists for big tobacco, and for guns and pharmaceuticals and agribusiness.

I said, where are all lobbyists in this city?

But there are options in spite of what the regional Airlines Association lobbyists say there are options besides just flying banner tows along the beach or being a flight instructor

And that leads to this extender mania, as lobbyists and Congress race around to try to extend the particular tax provision for another period of time.

of Congress, interviewing politicians and lobbyists for environmental groups and all

environment, they um they're strong advocates and lobbyists for for bicycling.

But you know what, the airline industry and their lobbyists are fighting as hard as they can tooth and nail.

How inconvenient it is for them, and of course they and their lobbyists are fighting anything that's deemed to be either the least bit more costly or the least but more inconvenient

The business model is focused on their life after government, their life as lobbyists.

Public Citizen calculated between 1998 and 2004, 50 percent of Senators left to become lobbyists.

So the lobbyists are still there and they're getting what they want and that's how the system worked.

We didn't take any money from lobbyists or PACs.

So it's mostly for sold through membership associations like that, and there are a huge group of lobbyists or activists now who are working on trying to legalize

And we will get laws enacted, enforced, we'll get budgets put in place, and we will be the lobbyists and the advocates for foster kids because God knows they've got

He told me "the problem with Capitol Hill is it has become a quote 'Farm league for K Street.'" K Street, the home of lobbyists.

I told my staff, "Tell all the lobbyists to go get new jobs."

It's not simply that lobbyists pay for political campaigns and then get the members to vote the way they

embargoed reporting relationships with a whole group of people from Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection to Fred Krup and the Environmental Defense Fund to lobbyists like

look at GM promoting that it's about Innovation promoting uh its cars have better fuel mileage but then you can turn around and see that their lobbyists

There were five lobbyists from the financial industry for every congressman.