This book emphasizes the process of lobbying over the substance of legislation, and that is fine.

Right or wrong, the tobacco deal is merely one more twist in the courtship of special interests and lobbying over the tax bill.

For the first time, technology companies are playing a leading role in Washington lobbying over a geopolitical issue.

Lobbying individual faculty members over long lunches or phone calls became a way of life.

And the governor, a three-term Republican, appealed to the business leaders to lobby the lawmakers over the next few days.

Campaigns to lobby over a longer period of time for a specific federalist cause.

The Giuliani administration has been vigorously lobbying for a veto, with a mixture of phone calls and letters over the past few days.

The New York markets, meanwhile, have not been lobbying hard overseas over these issues, some executives say.

States will be the main arena for lobbying battles over drug prices because Congress is not expected to do much more with the issue next year.

Republicans officials lobbied county canvassing boards over the telephone and with letters.