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I got accepted into the Virginia Tech Masters of Public Administration and George Mason Master of Public Policy and I am trying to decide which master degree will assist me the most with my career aspiration goals. I ultimately want to be a lobbyist working on reform for the education system focusing on students with disabilities.Any advice?

16 years old,title says it all. What can i do now to prepare, or improve chances of succeeding in this occupation? Tips from experienced lobbyists? Any help is appreciated.

There is a good chance I will be able to intern with a lobbyist from a major defense contracting company. I wanted to get some questions about this type of role. The VP I spoke to said that I would be in an unusual role since I would be able to actually to sit in on meetings.

1. Is it unusual for an intern to be able to sit in on meetings?
2. Since I will be working with a lobbyist and the defense company will I be required to register with the Office of the Clerk of the US?
3. How much would this help me expand my own professional network? I used my school's alumni and father's connection to help me get this opportunity and I want to be able create my own network instead of relying upon others.

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Not sure if this is the best place to ask this... but I am looking for some professional help in changing a Pennsylvania code relating to fishing streams. A section of stream that has been used recreationally by my family for more than 80 years was recently changed to a "Class A Wild Trout Steam" meaning that it will no longer be stocked. This makes it essentially worthless to fish.

Wondering if a lobbying firm can help address this decision by the PA Fish and Boat commission.

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There is a word I can't find....what is a piece of paper which includes the picture and a short personal narrative of politicians/lobbyists/legislators called? Lobbyists and politicians use these "cheat sheets" in meetings and conventions all the time to quickly identify who they are talking to and what their political issues may be. What is the name of the piece of paper called. (my ex was a lobbyist and put these sheet together all the time...don't want to call him to ask)

There is a politician some where right now having dinner with some lobbyist, or Chairman of the Board of some multibillion dollar company. They're working out details of some vote that will benefit said lobbyists company's profits in the future with the politician having little or no regard for what his/her constituents might favor, and/or desperately need. There is a special interest vying for the politician to vote their way next time around as well.

This is happening at all levels of government including at the local, state and federal levels.

All votes are bought and paid for. Am I cray?

Any lobbyists out there willing to do an AMA? Is there already an AMA past post I haven't found somebody can help me find?

Political scientist Thomas R. Dye once said that politics is about battling over scarce governmental resources: who gets them, where, when, why and how. Since government makes the rules in a complex economy such as the United States, it is logical that various organizations, businesses, individuals, nonprofits, trade groups, religions, charities and others—which are affected by these rules—will exert as much influence as they can to have rulings favorable to their cause. And the battling for influence has happened in every organized society since the beginning of civilization, whether it was Ancient Athens, Florence during the time of the Medici, Late Imperial China, or the present-day United States. Modern-day lobbyists in one sense are like the courtiers of the Ancien Régime. If voting is a general way for a public to control a government, lobbying is a more specific, targeted effort, focused on a narrower set of issues.

The lobby of the House of Commons. Painting 1886 by Liborio Prosperi. The term lobby has etymological roots in the physical structure of the British Parliament, in which there was an intermediary covered room outside the main hall. People pushing an agenda would try to meet with members of Parliament in this room, and they came to be known, by metonymy, as lobbyists, although one account in 1890 suggested that the application of the word "lobby" is American and that the term is not used as much in Britain.

The term lobbying in everyday parlance can describe a wide variety of activities, and in its general sense, suggests advocacy, advertising, or promoting a cause. In this sense, anybody who tries to influence any political position can be thought of as "lobbying", and sometimes the term is used in this loose sense. A person who writes a letter to a congressperson, or even questions a candidate at a political meeting, could be construed as being a lobbyist.

However, the term "lobbying" generally means a paid activity with the purpose of attempting to "influence or sway" a public official – including bureaucrats and elected officials – towards a desired specific action often relating to specific legislation. If advocacy is disseminating information, including attempts to persuade public officials as well as the public and media to promote the cause of something and support it, then when this activity becomes focused on specific legislation, either in support or in opposition, then it crosses the line from advocacy and becomes lobbying. This is the usual sense of the term "lobbying." One account suggested that much of the activity of nonprofits was not lobbying per se, since it usually did not mean changes in legislation.

A lobbyist, according to the legal sense of the word, is a professional, often a lawyer. Lobbyists are intermediaries between client organizations and lawmakers: they explain to legislators what their organizations want, and they explain to their clients what obstacles elected officials face. One definition of a lobbyist is someone "employed to persuade legislators to pass legislation that will help the lobbyist's employer." Many lobbyists work in lobbying firms or law firms, some of which retain clients outside lobbying. Others work for advocacy groups, trade associations, companies, and state and local governments. Lobbyists can be one type of government official, such as a governor of a state, who presses officials in Washington for specific legislation. A lobbyist may put together a diverse coalition of organizations and people, sometimes including lawmakers and corporations, and the whole effort may be considered to be a lobby; for example, in the abortion issue, there is a "pro-choice lobby" and a "pro-life lobby".

An estimate from 2007 reported that more than 15,000 federal lobbyists were based in Washington, DC; another estimate from 2011 suggested that the count of registered lobbyists who have actually lobbied was closer to 12,000. While numbers like these suggest that lobbying is a widespread activity, most accounts suggest that the Washington lobbying industry is an exclusive one run by a few well-connected firms and players, with serious barriers to entry for firms wanting to get into the lobbying business, since it requires them to have been "roaming the halls of Congress for years and years."

This is something I have been interested in for a long time... does anyone know which groups in the United States (and elsewhere I suppose, but I'm in the midwest) are the active lobby groups for the various lighting industries?

I'm not sure why it took me so long to think to come to Reddit for this information...