"We're not happy," said Tanya Metaksa, chief lobbyist for the rifle association.

The St. Louis-based group is the chief lobbyist for the nation's 34,000 soybean farmers.

Mr. Schramm, chief lobbyist and spokesman for the nation's commercial health insurance companies, says many people tell him "this is an industry of dinosaurs."

The company was fined $75,000 and its chief lobbyist was barred from lobbying the state government for three years.

"Deficit reduction is something we feel strongly about," says the chief lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors with its 800,000 members.

"The rumor of our demise is premature," said Tanya Metaksa, chief lobbyist for the association.

Their chief lobbyist has threatened a boycott by China's athletes of the 1996 Atlanta Games if Beijing isn't picked.

Card was General Motors's chief lobbyist before leaving to work in the Bush administration.

"We think the law is working well," said Bill Roberts, chief lobbyist for the Environmental Defense Fund.

After leaving the White House she became the chief lobbyist for Texas Air.