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In April, a crucial cramdown bankruptcy reform bill was quashed by Democrats who couldn't stand strong to a last-minute bank lobby surge.

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Meanwhile, of its own volition, Israel has illegally set up over 460,000 settlers on Palestinian land.Christopher LeadbeaterAshford, KentSurgingSIR – You ought to point out that the American Enterprise Institute is a neo-conservative, rather than a conservative, think-tank, and is intimately associated with the Israel lobby ("Less a surge than a squirt", January 9th, Economist.com).

The general began lobbying for a surge in private sessions with reporters and undercutting the president, who was trying to make a searingly hard call.

They sat on low-slung couches and modernist leather armchairs, as if in a midtown hotel lobby; contemporary music surged periodically through the action.

The volume of Christmas decorations, food and gifts in the lobby at Glendale Memorial Hospital surged Wednesday as staff members stopped by to contribute to the heap.

"Big money drives legislation, that's the lesson," said Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, who expressed concern about the surge of lobbying money in Albany.

WASHINGTON — In the span of a month, the nation's biggest banks and investment firms have twice won passage of measures to weaken regulations intended to help lessen the risk of another financial crisis, setting their sights on narrow, arcane provisions and greasing their efforts with a surge of lobbying and campaign contributions.

Because it shifts so much decision-making power to Washington, it will surely invite a surge of lobbying and worse still, a growth of crony competition as corporate managements begin to work still more closely with those in government empowered by Senator Warren's bill.

But the company quickly vowed to reapply, which suggests its surge of lobbying spending may continue in 2012.

By some measures, JPMorgan Chase has the lead in lobbying spending, but Wells Fargo's surge in the amount it spends to influence politicians is particularly notable -- the bank's lobbying spending increased 40percentt between 2010 and 2011.