"Indirect lobbying" is lobbying engaged in by a trade association or other organization of which Wal-Mart is a member.
Last year, the N.R.A. spent $97,701 and 627 hours lobbying or engaging in other activities in Wisconsin on behalf of the self-defense law and the concealed carry law, according to the State Legislature Web site.
Directors are allowed to lobby and engage in other specific activities.
I think the question that really the treasury should pay attention that under its nose the Iranian regime lobby has engaged in a major campaign of demonisation and propaganda to try to tarnish the image of these Iranians who are American citizens," he said.
These are mainly 501(c)4 groups, which are allowed to lobby and engage in political activity.
This is a business with considerable political clout, with the capacity to lobby politicians, engage in expensive legal battles, and use public relations to influence public debate.
Moreover, as President of the American Jewish Congress, Chair of the Israel Policy Forum and a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC, (the American Israel Political Action Committee) the pro-Israel lobby, I engaged in presenting pro-Israel positions to the administration and Congress.
Women united to write, march, lecture, lobby and engage in civil disobedience in order to convince the country that they were not inferior to men, and deserved the same rights.
With this support, CIDV was able to lobby and engage the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs.
Those of us who lead our lobbying work engage in no personal political activity – not only does it save us the laborious canvassing on wet weekends that blights the lives of the party political hacks that I know, but it makes our voice more credible.
