The competing bills have already splintered environmentalists, who are vigorously lobbying both chambers.
In Parliament, at least, "the lobbies and chambers are air-conditioned," he noted, "although Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru does not think much of the idea".
In addition to intense lobbying from chambers of commerce, CEOs of some of the biggest companies in Arizona put their foot down.... Brewer recently issued surprise vetoes on some of Pearce's pet legislation, including a birther bill, a bill that would have allowed guns on college campuses, and a bill challenging federal healthcare law.
Generally the city's West Side efforts have enjoyed at least modest public support from the hotel industry, the real estate lobby and the chamber of commerce.
Senate rules, of course, do not apply to the House, so Rubin would legally be allowed to lobby the lower chamber.
Prudential Financial's $2 million donation last year coincided with a chamber lobbying effort against elements of the financial regulation bill in Congress.
Both Democrats and Republicans showed they could stand up to Vice President Dick Cheney's "torture chamber" lobbying tactics.
In the lobby of 31 Chambers Street, the 1911 Beaux-Arts Surrogate's Court Building, a ballroom scene is being filmed for the television show "Central Park West".
Anxious to correct the impression that so senior a genocide suspect should get off scot free, the prosecutor's office is now lobbying the appeal chamber in The Hague, promising to produce new evidence to persuade the judges to reconsider.
Under current rules, if a Speaker's re-appointment is objected to, a vote is held, with MPs filing through the division lobbies outside the chamber to cast their vote.
