To overcome inter-service rivalry, the air force has been made the "executive agent" for space a move that may pre-empt Mr Smith's idea of a dedicated space force.That may make bureaucratic sense, but it risks creating a lobbying group for more, and more expensive, kit than is needed.
"We need to create a lobby group to work in Brussels on behalf of artisanal producers.
"We're romancing the public areas — where people can interact," he said, "and trying to create a lobby that's a series of lounges you can use".
And while gourmet France under-produces, industrial America has been "flooding" world dairy markets, he adds: perhaps not the outcome France had in mind.How to create a lobby groupIt is an EU rule that unintended consequences, left for a few years, fossilise into special interests.
Bernard Siegel, a Florida lawyer who created a lobby called the Genetics Policy Institute in Coral Gables in response to the issue, calls the committee decision a "triumph" for researchers.
The Ricchetti brothers, who grew up in Cleveland, created a lobbying firm here in 1998.
In 1975, the N.R.A. created a lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action, headed by Harlon Bronson Carter, an award-winning marksman and a former chief of the U.S. Border Control.
In 2009, 200 small and midsize businesses created a lobbying group, the Bundesverband Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie, based in Hamburg, with the goal of altering the legal system.
A group of e-commerce companies and trade groups including eBay, Orbitz and the Electronic Commerce Association have joined forces to create a lobbying organization in Washington.
