In a statement, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the drug industry lobby known as PhRMA, called its interactions with the White House part of its mission to "ensure patient access" to high-quality medicine: "Before, during and since the health care debate, PhRMA engaged with Congress and the administration to advance these priorities," the lobby statement said.
"Your lobby is a statement," said Alan Risi, president of Georal International, a company that sells and installs doors.
The quaint, comfortable lobby makes a statement with its cigar counter and tables at the ready for a pick-up chess game.
Huffed the Post, "Mr. Freeman issued a two-page screed on Tuesday in which he described himself as the victim of a shadowy and sinister 'Lobby'... His statement was a grotesque libel".
But momentum for a legislative fix was soon ― and some gun control advocates argue deliberately ― kneecapped when the National Rifle Association, the powerful gun lobby, issued a statement urging the administration to address the matter via existing regulations and not law.
As a result of the law and adroit lobbying, the policy statement by the state's Coastal Commission deleted the projection of a 39-inch sea level rise within 90 years, and substituted a 30-year projection and eight-inch rise.
The GEP-AFTP oil and gas lobby said in a statement said in a statement: "France is depriving itself of exploration that could evaluate potentially large nonconventional carbon resources," adding that it deplored the court decision.
"Islamic terrorists have penetrated every aspect of our immigration system," Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington lobby, said in a statement this week.
"We will carefully review the entire TPP agreement once the text is released by the ministers," the industry lobby said in a statement.
Stephen Glaister of the RAC Foundation, a motoring lobby, put out a statement this week about "transport poverty", comparing his estimate of the number of households who spend more than 10% of their income on transport (21 million) with those who spend that proportion on heating to keep warm (4 million).
"This package puts us on the right path to delivering a competitive, low-carbon future," said Katja Hall, chief policy director at the United Kingdom's business lobby CBI, in a statement.
