A Chinese tour agency that was granted a peek at the interior in September released photographs of a still bare concrete lobby.
The teachers unions, which in 2007 fought a bare-knuckle lobbying battle that scuttled Congress's last effort to rewrite the No Child Left Behind law, are voicing muted concern over a couple of provisions in the stimulus.
Waging a bare-knuckles lobbying and legal campaign, he and his allies on Wall Street, many of whom have held on for more than five years, have spent millions of dollars to counter what they contend is an attempt by regulators and larger wireless companies to restrict competition by confiscating their licenses.
The stairways rise up through the lobby, with their bare metal treads, disappearing mysteriously into the far recesses of the museum; the effect is cinematic – Piranesian, even – and wholly compelling.
Well-organized looters strip the Treasury bare because Americans won't lobby to save the buck or two that the ethanol producers, sugar growers, exporters, overseas investors, apartment owners, labor unions and so many others mulct from individual taxpayers.
When I visited, a baby-grand piano and a new espresso bar were both on order, so the lobby looked a little bare.
Anyone concerned about having a rational gun policy in this country had reason for grave concern yesterday as Congress snarled itself into a frenzy of election-year politicking and bare-knuckle pressure from a gun lobby aided by President Bush.
A report today lays bare the extent of their efforts to lobby Europe's premier political institutions, both directly and indirectly.
With the hallways taken care of, the board turned its attention to a bare wall at the back of the lobby — which, as it happens, proved to be difficult.
