How businesses and their agents lobbied for these millions is a mystery since there is currently no law that requires anyone to disclose money spent trying to influence state contracts.

And some American businesses that trade in the sweat of slave labor will lobby against the ban, arguing that the Chinese people will be hurt.

Certainly small business, through its close connections with the ruling LDP party, has lobbied for a shift in the established policies of support and protection for big business.

Small business is lobbying frantically, and successfully, to kill health care reform's employer mandates.

Of the businesses lobbying Congress on the issue, Accenture is by all accounts the most aggressive about using every avenue.

For years, small businesses have been lobbying for the opportunity to form nationwide health plans, exempt from state insurance standards, which they contend raise costs.

While big business has aggressively lobbied in recent weeks on behalf of the North American Free Trade Agreement, small business has been conspicuously silent.

American businesses are furiously lobbying Congress to approve $18 billion for the International Monetary Fund so the Asian bailout can continue.

Art lovers and local businesses are lobbying for the statues to stay.

Small businesses have lobbied heavily against proposals calling for any type of Federal requirement that employers provide insurance.