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The Memorial Student Union allows up to 5 tables Monday through Friday in the Stallings Ballroom lobby to be used for vending , fundraising and information purposes . MIT faculty and staff receive paper copies of is & t through campus mail ; the newsletter is also available in lobbies around campus . The glass wraparound lobby and pop-out balcony high on the southeast corner are visible from outside . " He lobbies state and national legislators for increased funding for public education and speaks out about the need for bargaining rights for ESPs . Of course , lobbying groups will still have ways of exerting influence outside of the campaign-finance system — by , for instance , running fake grassroots campaigns in support of favored causes , as the pharmaceutical industry did in 2003 to help pass the Medicare drug bill . His work has involved extensive research , writing , lobbying , media work and actions on issues related to nuclear weapons production , and plutonium separation . We may consider what took place in the fall ; the democracy they are in is based on exercising power through lobbies . In recent weeks the Venezuelan President , Rafael Caldera , under heavy pressure from the mining lobby in Caracas and Puerto Ayacucho , the capital of the State of Amazonas , has indicated that he plans to revoke two decrees which presently ban logging and mining in the State . I think it is a terrible mistake , and to Mr. Blankenburg , I do n't know how much you have lobbied this Congress to get moving on administrative expenses . Following the government 's appointment of Lagos Lidimo as joint head of the new army , the organization actively lobbied against the appointment on the grounds of his poor human rights record . The committee is responsible also for keeping alumni informed of pressing legislative issues and assisting the University administration in lobbying for government support of higher education . and he lobbied me very actively to pick up coverage so that JPM could go after the banking business , especially equities but also potentially debt , M & A , etc. My attitude initially was that IRF is a low-grade semiconductor company that would be hard to sell to buy-side clients , but [ he ] kept pushing the banking potential . Likewise , the National Forest Owners Association ( NFOA ) , has lobbied for such tax incentives . " Up until now the lobbying effort against this software patent law has been a shambles , " said one expert with no direct involvement in the debate , who asked not to be named . I am sure that all Members of Parliament with constituencies in Greater Manchester will lobby on behalf of the police there , because that is what we want to do for our area . However , the final count after the division , when both treasury and opposition members temporarily retired in different lobbies , came down to 151 . I had lobbied to delete this activity during a planning discussion the previous evening . Instead , he offered Wiranto new U.S. militarry aid and even offered to lobby the U.S. Congress on Wiranto 's behalf and invited Wiranto to his home in Hawaii . Drug folks have pretty stiff lobbies ; of course , term limits would take care of that , too , but I ’ m getting off topic .