Ask yourself why the U.S. Christian Coalition is the most influential lobby against scientific progress in the world.

Our voting rights must not be sacrificed to the lowest bidder, nor to the most influential lobby.

Here is the Netroots as just another influential lobby to be wooed and won over, like the steelworkers or the Sierra Club.

The most influential lobbies wanted railroad subsidies and a tariff on wool.

The government had begun to tear it down, but an influential lobby, including the American Embassy, has blocked the dismantling for the time being.

But trial lawyers represent an influential lobby, particularly in Albany, where most of the new laws must be approved.

The Government of President Ernesto Zedillo hopes that they will become an influential ethnic lobby.

"We would be taking on the most influential lobby in Washington today," McCain tells me.

They are a large and influential lobby and an important base for the Republican Party.

In New York, where real estate and landlord groups are an influential lobby, writing a lead poisoning prevention law has been a nearly intractable exercise.