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Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
John LK Thomas, US Chamber of Commerce, We do it in two ways. Direct meaning we testify before Congressional Committees. We lobby one on one. We send letters and mailgrams to the Committee as it s marking up a bill and to the members of Congress as they re getting ready for a Floor vote. That s the direct approach. The indirect approach is through the grass roots.
Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
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Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
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Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
John LK Thomas, US Chamber of Commerce, We try to make the issue understandable to them to the point where they ll see how it s going to affect them. And they will then be motivated to communicate with their member of Congress so that they can have something to say about what Congress is doing.
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Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
April 26, 1982. Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Ronald Reagan Accepting important challenges is the Chamber's stock-in-trade, and a new one begins today: How about the first business satellite television network system in the world - a system that can reach every community in this country to promote and strengthen our enterprise system?
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