The bankers' lobby is at work, night and day, to weaken this reform legislatively and in its implementation, orchestrating grassroots lobbying by local banks and coordinating it with campaign contributions.
Here, too, lobbying was at work.
And it reflected the intense lobbying efforts at work from all sides, as Congress and the administration consider ways to prevent another drilling disaster off the nation's coasts.
Despite an EU directive outlawing discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual orientation, an exemption enjoyed by religious organisations so far, the Christian lobby is hard at work to overturn it.
Washington State Senator Sharon Nelson (D-Maury Island), a co-signer on Monday's letter to the ACC, would also count her state among the number where the chemical lobby has been at work.
The gun lobby has been hard at work these past few weeks in Albany trying to block smart legislation that would help police officers solve violent crimes.
But those who suffer the array of symptoms associated with Lyme, and who have become a formidable political lobby, see a conspiracy at work.
These same self-interested adtech giants are now, of course, hard at work lobbying US lawmakers that big data is a tenet of tech faith — when it really doesn't have to be that way.
It's not just the virulent lobbying of the NRA at work.
