Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Fred Wertheimer, President of Common Cause, I m a lobbyist. I ve sent a good part of my professional life lobbying. Our organization lobbies. I believe that it is constitutionally protected and mandated. It is an inherent part of our system.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Sign for Power House pull out to show name on door Gray and Company
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
CU of computer screen pull out to office worker talking on phone. Pan across office. Different people talking on the phone in the office.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Host Ed Newman standing in an office discusses the origin of lobbying in the English Parliament; the program will look at lobbying.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Frederick Dutton, attorney and lobbyist, One of the key points I think needs to be made lobbying has a negative connotation, but the truth of the matter is that it is absolutely essential to our form of government.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Constitution of the United States. Title shows provisions of Article III for petition for redress of grievances.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
DO NOT USE Poster for Slave Auction
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
DO NOT USE Still photo of Women's Suffrage marchers
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
DO NOT USE Still photo of Temperance and Prohibition advocates.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
1963 Civil Rights March on Washington marchers. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leading a march.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Army Artillery unit firing cannon in Vietnam.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
DO NOT USE Still photo of John D Rockefeller, JP Morgan
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
DO NOT USE Still photo of railroad construction and cartoons illustrating the influence of the industrial barons in Washington.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Fred Wertheimer, President of Common Cause, The reason that the lobbyist then and today, have reputations generic reputations that are on the unsavory side really have to do with the techniques that people associate with lobbyists - the techniques of using money of getting unfair advantages of getting the system distorted in their favor at the expense of the person who is looking at this the person who considers himself the average citizen.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Lobbyists in halls of Congress
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
People working in a public relations firm headquarters.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
DO NOT USE Stills of FDR and LBJ.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
Robert Salisbury, political scientist there s much more public policy. Because there is much more public policy, there is much more impact on all kinds of people in society. And as they are affected, they in turn get themselves organized and try to get up there and try to either defend what they ve got or try to change what they ve got.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
House of Representatives chamber rostrum. A Congressional committee hearing.