Provided with a legal framework within which to operate, lobbyists can push for amendments and exceptions favorable to large-scale production, resulting in "legally organic" products produced in ways similar to current conventional food.

Powerful lobbyists were pushing it.

In response, local lobbyists continually pushed the Victorian government for decentralisation, the greatest success being the Victorian Railways opening the Ballarat North Workshops in April 1917.

For 18 months, officials and lobbyists for MicroGeneSys (pronounced micro genesis) intensively pushed Federal researchers and lawmakers to speed up testing of the company's vaccine, according to interviews with researchers and Congressional aides.

Corporate lobbyists have been pushing for the change for years, and they persuaded Congress to include it in President Bush's tax-cut bill last year.

Adding yet another big uncertainty for managed-care companies, lobbyists for doctors and consumers have pushed through patient protection laws and regulations in most states that the health maintenance organizations contend will raise their costs.

In 2008, lobbyists pushed for a rail line to Temecula in southwestern Riverside County via the 91 Line's La Sierra station.

While the wording has not been set for the bill, also known as HR3997, lobbyists for the credit agencies are pushing for a law that limits the ability to lock credit reports to victims of identity theft.

Industry and environmental lobbyists are already pushing to protect their favored provisions or fight ones they do not like.

Chow accused the governing Harper government of backing down on a promise to slay cronyism in Ottawa because Tory-connected lobbyists were pushing the expansion of Toronto's controversial island airport.