Raymond Plank, the chairman of the Apache Corporation, a gas producer based in Houston, said that the big gas marketing and trading companies, including Enron, successfully lobbied to kill the plan, leaving prices as volatile as ever.
Critics say the group is little more than a front organization for the drug industry, which they say is lobbying to kill drug benefits while also offering a vague compromise plan that has little support in Congress.
The big banks spent $1.4 million dollars a day lobbying to kill reform and they did not succeed.
Since 2008, the insurance industry has spent at least $77 million in campaign contributions and lobbying to kill reform, according to data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Prior to his time as head of the USFS, Rey was known mainly for lobbying to kill environmental standards and enforce mandatory logging of forests.
"I think it is because some of the institutions that have folks who make over $150,000 lobbied to kill the bill". Calls to representatives for the Assembly Appropriations and Finance committees were not returned.
(Tribune Co., parent of The Times and KTLA-TV Channel 5, has lobbied to kill the broadcast-newspaper rule). A third cross-ownership rule, the broadcast-cable restriction, was overturned by a federal court last year.
One key factor helps explain why communities ravaged by Hurricane Sandy could not use cell phones to call for help and communicate with the outside world: mobile telephone companies have for years lobbied to kill rules that would have forced them to maintain backup power at their cell phone towers.
The Affordable Care Act originally had two programs designed to serve this function, but both were temporary and one never paid out the money it owed ― because Republicans, led by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla)., attacked it as a "bailout" and successfully lobbied to kill its funding.
