He earned the enmity of the broadcasters, perhaps the biggest lobbying force with interests before his panel.
"And every single one of those programs has a lobbying force behind it or it wouldn't be there.
As a lobbying force, it may stride briskly through the corridors of power; on an artistic level, it bounces along on My Little Pony.
The nation is fortunate that the standoff has now galvanized a less dollar-driven lobbying force — the families of the victims in last year's tragedy.
It also shows that in the coming legislative battles that will shape the future of the economy, the financial industry — through a powerful and well-financed lobbying force — may have a far stronger hand to play than might seem evident.
Mr. Rivera commands a much smaller army: 400 union staff members working full time for health care reform, an unusually large lobbying force that is part of the tens of millions of dollars the union has devoted to the campaign.
The Committee to Save New York, a coalition of business leaders that spent millions of dollars supporting the agenda of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and that seemed, overnight, to become the biggest lobbying force in Albany, said on Friday that it was shutting down.
Their efforts, and those of the administration, were bolstered by Capitol Hill's newest lobbying force: Indian-Americans.
In a notable show of lobbying force, the Wheat Growers deployed 20 staff members to a Washington DC PR event in October.
So while the NRA may be a bloated, possibly corrupt, excessively powerful lobbying force, partly staffed by horrible racists, it's also the mouthpiece of a fandom more widespread than Bronies, Trekkies, and Furries combined and multiplied by a hundred.
Indeed, these kinds of things never seem to worry the Chamber, the nation's largest and richest lobbying force on behalf of many of our dirtiest and most detested industries.
