After leaving the Senate, Mr. Thompson, busy with his acting career, lobbied for just one client: Equitas, an insurance company concerned about asbestos liabilities.
In 1997, in an early sign of ambitions beyond acting, Clooney successfully lobbied for a live episode of "E.R".
He chastised the world for not acting more decisively; lobbied for making experimental therapies available; and, through the Wellcome Trust, helped fund research in West Africa including the vaccine trial in Guinea, which for the first time showed protection from Ebola in humans.
And the Saudi government spent $270,000 at Trump's D.C. hotel last year, according to filings by a lobbying firm acting on the Saudis' behalf.
Landlord lobbying groups, acting in the interests of those landlords with multiple properties who view themselves as entrepreneurs, always argue their members are philanthropic, providing a service out of the kindness of their hearts, and are a vital part of the economy.
It was unprecedented--an Israeli opposition party acting against their government lobbying the US Congress to turn against the policy of our government.
ALEC is currently under fire for potentially abusing its 501(c)(3) non-profit IRS charity tax status, acting as a shadow lobbying apparatus and "corporate bill mill" throughout its 40 years of existence.
The Federal Aviation Administration is not acting as a lobby for pilots—it is acting as a lobby for the passengers sitting behind those pilots.
The drone industry suspects that this is regulatory capture that the FAA is acting as a lobby for pilots.The FAA's attitude is damaging America's drone business.
Instead the court decision throws the burden back to Congress, where meaningful legislation to control tobacco use has been thwarted for years by the powerful tobacco lobby acting through legislators addicted to its campaign contributions.
