Lobbying in the United States

conducting research and analysis on model federal and state health policies implementing the ACA. Support the organization’s health literacy initiative, which is helping newly-enrolled women learn how to effectively use their health insurance and avoid unexpected costs. Improve access to health care by translating complicated policies into language that is easily understood by constituents. • Led a research project that uncovered problems with the NY State of Health…

dispute. Legislation for the pipeline was first introduced in 2008 when TransCanada “began construction the Keystone Pipeline after the United States issued a Presidential Permit authorizing the construction, maintenance, of the pipeline along the border of the United States and Canada” (O’Rourke) Despite Canadian…

Lenz & Holman, 2013). Interest groups often engage in direct lobbying which consists of approaching government officials to persuade them of a position on an issue (Soltero, 2016). Direct lobbying can include, lobbying Congress by testifying in front of a committee meeting, lobbying the executive branch and independent regulatory commissions by meeting with high-level officials, providing commentary and information, as well as lobbying the judicial branch, by filing an Amicus Curiae brief in…

Post-industrial nations, such as the United States, have slowly moved in the direction of a plutocracy, a government controlled by the wealthy. The financial disparity between the majority of the population and the top one percent has grown exponentially since the 1980’s. The top 1 percent control over 40 percent of the wealth in the United States, the top 0.1 percent control 20 percent, and the top 0.01 percent control 10 percent. This is compared to the bottom 80 percent which controls at most…

mid-1990s drugs manufactured in Canada were being imported into the United States. The driver behind these imports was the lower cost of drugs in Canada (Richert 2013). In 2004, Canada’s price review board estimated that on average Americans pay 67 percent more than Canadians for patented drugs (Richert 2013). One example, the antiretroviral drug ritonavir (Norvir) costs $700 per year in Canada and costs $7,800 per year in the United States (Richert 2013). From the uninsured American consumer’s…

their direction. Meanwhile, the amount of gold reserves declined and President Cleveland blamed the Sherman silver purchase Act of 1890 which got the government to buy up silver and pay for it with gold. So the President went on attack and started lobbying to have the Act repealed which led to a devastating split of the Democratic…

about “should California secedes from the US and become its own country,” people should understand what an independent country is. The United Nations (UN) has five requests for an independent country – to demonstrate political independence, diplomatic capacity, territorial integrity, legislation and justice, and population. Even so, it is not easy for a city or state to become a country. Fortunately, there are many examples in history. The examples shows that moving from a semi-autonomous region…

to “hold its broad shield over all and to see that every American citizen is alike and equally protected in his civil and personal rights” (15; 15-16). Douglass helped advocate for greater African American inclusion in elections and education by lobbying for legislation like the Federal Election Bill and the Blair Education Bill, and when these laws were not passed, he did not “[lose] either heart or hope,” nor did he abandon the Republican party or his faith in democracy, but rather redoubled…

areas of the northern United States, but they are mainly from the “gang phenomenon”. We do not find the same type of weapons in New York or Arizona. The culture of gun is much more present in the West and in the South. The “southerners” prefer to trust the local authorities and self-defense and in the north, the Progressive who voted Barack Obama does not have a gun. He trusts the authorities. To increase this gun culture, gun shows are often organized in the United States. Those are weapons…

“The main purpose of suicide terrorism is to use the threat of punishment to coerce a target government to change policy, especially to cause democratic states to withdraw forces from territory terrorists view as their homeland” (Pape, 2003). When a group of people feel unsafe then they are not able to function at the highest capacity. They will be distracted by fear, looking around corners and forever…