Russia has lobbied strongly for his release.
The Malaysian Employers Federation had lobbied strongly for English to be retained as the medium of instruction.
Now, Mr. Paige's departure is galvanizing Hispanics, who are lobbying strongly for a Hispanic successor.
The Apache deployment was one he had lobbied strongly for with British defense chiefs.
Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York, who had lobbied strongly for release of the money, accused the administration of political calculations.
But utilities that furnish electricity, natural gas and home heating oil have lobbied strongly for programs that provide money to help pay bills.
"The effort to get this legislation has been a joint effort by many nongovernmental organizations and the fishery department, who lobbied strongly for several months," Ms. Gibson said.
But it was immediately denounced as "outrageously wrong" by Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, who lobbied strongly for Sikorsky to continue building the White House's helicopters, a role that dates back to the Eisenhower era.
Three unions lobbied strongly for the bill: 1199/S.E.I.U., the health care union that represents 50,000 of the home care workers covered by the bill who average $7.50 an hour; the United Federation of Teachers, which represents nearly 1,000 employees at United Cerebral Palsy; and District 1707, which represents about 8,000 day care workers.
The Heartland Institute – which has received funding in the past from oil companies and is a leading source of climate science skepticism – also lobbies strongly for school vouchers and other forms of "school transformation" that are broadly aimed at undermining the current public school system.
