And before the last meeting one member actually called me and lobbied for my vote on a particular issue.

Democrats on the Energy subcommittee said it was the second time in two weeks that senior members of the Administration were lobbying at cross purposes.

At the scheduled meeting on March 20, some members lobbied for a rate cut of three-quarters of a percentage point.

She claimed that the nine members of her committee "lobbied" for funds from the ministry they oversaw.

By law, former members of Congress cannot directly lobby Congress for one year after retiring.

Some members of Congress, especially from agricultural states, also lobbied strongly against sanctions and for increased trade.

Boy bands generally do not compose or produce their own material, unless the members lobby hard enough for creative control.

For three years its members lobbied, nagged the environmental agency and gathered statistics on the plant's potential emissions.

But some members of Congress are lobbying for big new ones.

Since then, some members have been lobbying to vote down the notion.