Rankin "put the lob in lobbying," a friend said.
For one thing, a Democratic House, whose leaders will have power to initiate probes of companies or entire industries, will put the business lobby on the defensive, says Pat Cleary of the National Association of Manufacturers.
Until we get past partisan politics, put the brakes on lobbying and reverse the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations, foreign and domestic, to buy candidates, we will never have a government that truly works for the betterment of its citizens.
When Soho House became inundated with bankers and other social undesirables, a sign was put in the lobby showing a red line through the image of a suit.
The 92 buildings lucky enough to receive a fanfare via an excel spreadsheet, however, have already won an award: specifically a lead plaque that they can put in the lobby, and called, amazingly enough, a "RIBA Award".
A special ethics panel on Thursday ousted Alabama's chief justice, Roy S. Moore, who was lionized by the religious right for his refusal to remove a titanic monument of the Ten Commandments he had put in the lobby of the state judicial building.
Mr. Obama put the White House's full lobbying power behind a House cap-and-trade bill that would have limited climate-altering emissions and brought profound changes in how the nation produces and consumes energy.
The affordability and effectiveness of less-than-lethal weapons will help put the lie to the gun lobby's self-defense argument, but that will not be sufficient to lessen the number of guns — or 30,000 annual gun deaths — in the United States.
These are people who put the agenda of the gun lobby ahead of the lives of the citizens they have been elected to represent.
