Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue.

Environmental groups are lobbying the Senate from the other side.

So the group is lobbying to increase its cut of the forthcoming city budget, from $22,388 to $125,000.

"The Council has worked very hard over the last four years to encourage all the city's cultural groups to lobby as one voice," they said.

Now that same group is lobbying to make sure he dies.

The group has lobbied the government of Oregon since about 1990.

Indeed, many feel the need to organize groups to lobby for more police protection.

Women's groups have lobbied for the measure as part of their effort to end discrimination against women.

But many civic groups lobbied the commission in support of a new budget office.

The group does not lobby for state budget money.