An influential lobby of foreign commentators argue that the image of a starving African child offers a false picture of the real Africa.
Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, a law signed by President Franklin Roosevelt to regulate international lobbying, agents of foreign governments are required to report a significant amount of their activities to the public.
He also found that at its gatherings he could lobby scores of foreign ministers in one place.
Stone has rarely visited Washington since he left the city, two decades ago, after he helped invent the lucrative practice of lobbying for foreign governments with image problems.
He also said that he would institute, for former Administration officials, a five-year ban on industry lobbying and a lifetime ban on lobbying on behalf of foreign governments, promises that have no enforcement mechanism and so are about as good as a lifetime money-back guarantee from the defunct Trump University.
The bill would also prohibit lobbyists from contributing to federal campaigns and bar Americans from lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.
He reinstated the word "royal" for the navy and the air force, replaced Canadian artwork in the lobby of the foreign ministry with a portrait of the queen and agreed to share some embassies with Britain.
A lobby (only in this case, the lobby of a foreign government) is dictating our policies with no regard for the greater American good.
His opponent in the primary is a state senator, Randy Hultgren, who claimed in one of his mailers that Hastert's law firm "lobbies on behalf of foreign mining companies with... a history of human trafficking".
The revelation came shortly after Flynn and his company, Flynn Intel Group Inc., filed documents with the Justice Department on Wednesday retroactively registering him as a "foreign agent" for lobbying he had carried out for a firm linked to the Turkish government — as is required of U.S. nationals who lobby on behalf of foreign governments.
