Talk:Lobbying in the United States

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I've created this article in an attempt to focus specifically on the US case. I'd like to:

• introduce some more headings
• cull the intro section into something more succinct (right now it is just a copy paste job from Lobbying
• expand the number of different lobby groups, and offer a short description of each

Hopefully others will help out! cheers Suicup 08:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Key groups 2 African-american lobby(ies)? 3 Key lobbying groups 4 Money

[edit] Key groups

I expanded the Key groups section.

Before:

• Israel lobby
• China Lobby
• Arab Lobby
• Christian Right
• Gun Lobby
• Oil Lobby
• Labor Unions

After:

• Arab lobby (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Arab American Institute)

• China lobby (Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office)

• Christian Right (Christian Coalition, Christian Voice Concerned Women for America, Traditional Values Coalition)

• Gun lobby (Gun Owners of America (Pro-Gun Rights), National Rifle Association (Pro-Gun Rights), Second Amendment Sisters (Pro-Gun Rights), Americans for Gun Safety Foundation (Pro-Gun Control), Brady Campaign (Pro-Gun Control))

• Israel lobby (AIPAC, Israel Campus Roundtable, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations)

• Labor unions (AFL-CIO, Change to Win Federation)

• Oil lobby (American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil, OPEC, Saudi Aramco)

Hopefully it is an improvement. I would also suggest adding the enviromental lobby, tobacco lobby, pharmaceutical lobby, etc. Regards. South Korean Sky 05:32, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! good work, although for Big Pharma, i probably wouldn't list actual corporations as they are not lobby groups. Suicup 12:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

How is this different to corruption?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.78.191.151 (talk) 22:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] African-american lobby(ies)?

There are groups in that area such as the oft-mentioned National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- it seems similar to AIPAC in a way with regular appearances of US presidents as speakers. NAACP is also relocating to Washington DC so it can be more effective. --Deodar 02:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Key lobbying groups

The main list is here [1]. The current list is not representative and seems very arbitrary. --Deodar 05:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree, from reading the list/table, a person would likely believe that the 'Finance, Insurance & Real Estate' sector spent $2,116,701,718 in the years 1998 to 2005. This is incorrect, over the column that lists the dollar amount should be the heading "total." By looking at the cited page, you can see that the $2,116,701,718 figure is the amount purportedly spent by all lobbyists from 1998 to 2005. I'd change it, but I don't have an account and probably wouldn't know how to make a table. 70.245.187.172 20:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and changed it - but its very rough. 70.245.187.172 20:42, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Money

I'm still not sure how the money raised by lobbyists are used to gain legistlation. I'd like to know how exactly money is used. Is it given to a representative in exchange for their time?

Basicly my question is why do Lobbysts need raise millions and billions of dollars? Can we ever make an account of how much lobby dollars went into putting legislation in? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.109.42.92 (talk) 09:21, 20 March 2008 (UTC)