The CBI, a business lobbying outfit, points out that statutory leave is already planned to rise to 28 working days by 2009, and says that an extra public holiday would cost up to £6 billion ($12.1 billion).
The National Mining, Petroleum and Energy Society, an industry lobby, points to a recent survey of world mining by the Fraser Institute, a Vancouver-based think-tank.
The insurance lobby points out that Mr Obama's plan will dissuade healthy people from buying more generous, costly coverage on the exchanges.
It is true, as the gun lobby points out, that when it comes to polls about firearms, much depends on how the question is posed.
The study does not involve fish used in sushi.Your article stated that "the fish lobby points out that the USGS findings do not necessarily damn the commercial fish industry".
Ernesto Ambrosetti, an economist at the Rural Society, the main farmers' lobby, points out that they turned to soya partly as the safest bet during Argentina's recent political and economic turmoil.
The farm lobby points out at every opportunity that New Jersey's farmland is the most expensive and highly taxed in the nation, and that dairy and grain farmers are under siege here, as everywhere.
Nor is there any prospect that the Scandinavian countries are going to bring their abortion policies in line with Poland's, so there is little point lobbying them on that point, especially not at an EU meeting.If you are cynical, you could suspect that Poland's government picked the fight about the European day against the death penalty to win points with its conservative base of voters back home.
Business lobbies point ruefully to the current government, a grand coalition of left and right.
"At 1020 hours... seen at Lobby point on Peter Street were two anti-war protesters from Brighton, John Catt and Linda Catt", reads the entry.
