Lobbyists
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Moreover, the government officials,
lobbyists
, and interest groups doing the designing may not have the public interest in mind – or even know what the public interest happens to be.
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Now we're the country that has full-time
lobbyists
in the European Union and Washington DC, threatening trade wars when these countries talk about wanting to bring in positive legislation to limit the import of high-carbon fuels, of greenhouse gas emissions, anything like this, at international conferences, whether they're in Copenhagen or Cancun, international conferences on climate change, we're the country that gets the dinosaur award every single day, as being the biggest obstacle to progress on this issue.
Because there is an economy here, an economy of influence, an economy with
lobbyists
at the center which feeds on polarization.
Members and staffers and bureaucrats have an increasingly common business model in their head, a business model focused on their life after government, their life as
lobbyists.
Fifty percent of the Senate between 1998 and 2004 left to become lobbyists, 42 percent of the House.
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