Michael Wascom, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association, the industry's principal lobby, said yesterday that the domestic airline industry was among the most competitive in the world.
Before the September attacks, the seaport industry's principal lobby, the American Association of Port Authorities, fought the legislation, arguing that it would impose one-size-fits-all security systems for all seaports.
In a letter to the Air Transport Association, the industry's principal lobbying group, the agency said the "flying public would be harmed" if the government honored the industry request.
The tobacco industry, which lobbied heavily against the city's 1995 restrictions, may have less influence over the debate because court decisions recently eliminated its principal lobbying organization, the Tobacco Institute.
By the end of the technology bubble in 2000, his firm was the largest market maker on the Nasdaq electronic market, and he was a member of the Securities Industry Association, now known as the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Wall Street's principal lobbying arm.
A dispute at the highest levels of the principal lobbying group for Europe's automotive industry was resolved with a handshake on Friday, as Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of Fiat and Chrysler, met with Martin Winterkorn, chief executive of Volkswagen, on the convention floor at the Paris motor show.
Although Rabbi Eckstein half-jokingly described Stand for Israel as "the Christian Aipac" -- referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the principal lobbying organization in Washington for Israel -- the group's charitable tax status will not allow it to lobby Congress or the White House.
The Chamber, the principal lobbying group for businesses in Washington, spent $29 million over the 2016 cycle to boost Republican Senate and House candidates, many of them staunch conservatives who vowed to defund Planned Parenthood and support Supreme Court nominees willing to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Sir Harry's Bar is one of the principal bars of the hotel, situated just off the main lobby.
A1 Author of Bill Turns Lobbyist Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana, a principal author of the new Medicare drug law, will become president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the chief lobby for brand-name drug companies.
So DeMatteo went to the school principal to lobby for Kennedy to be moved into regular classes.
