The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, the industry's primary lobbying group, has estimated sales of nine million by that year.
Mr. Haaga is also chairman of the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund industry's primary lobbying association in Washington.
But documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal Easton was in fact representing the NHS Partners Network, the UK's primary lobbying group for the private healthcare sector.
Also last month, the primary lobbying group for the nation's large drug companies, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, gave $925,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee.
For good measure, he accuses the National Federation of Independent Business — which he calls "the sector's primary lobbying group" — of being "a purely partisan operation".
The bank's primary lobbying efforts are aimed at the federal government, which gave the company billions of dollars in bailout money during the financial crisis.
The Motion Picture Association, which oversees the movie ratings system and is the entertainment industry's primary lobbying organization, has been seeking a new leader since Dan Glickman resigned in early April.
Yet the sector's primary lobbying group — the National Federation of Independent Business — tends to fight less for these pragmatic policies and more for the standard conservative agenda of lower taxes and deregulation.
According to the Independent Community Bankers Association, the primary lobbying group for the nation's 8,000 smaller banks, institutions with less than $1 billion in assets hold only 12 percent of all bank assets but have made 40 percent of the small business loans currently outstanding.
What makes it perhaps more noteworthy is that it looks like its ambition is to be the primary lobbying group for large tech companies.
