The small but growing satellite dish industry has spent three years lobbying lawmakers to change a law that prevents them from offering subscribers local programming.

They have lobbied lawmakers to stop the proposal.

During the legislative session in Albany, he turned over part of his office to loft tenants who were lobbying other lawmakers.

The plan, first used by the Tennessee territory in 1796, creates the position of two senators and a congressman to lobby national lawmakers for statehood.

The couple became high-profile advocates for the proposal - speaking emotionally at news conferences, issuing statements with the Governor and lobbying lawmakers.

Lobbying lawmakers to pass legislation addressing child abuse, rape, domestic violence and child support.

Mrs. Whitman has declined to personally lobby lawmakers on this issue, saying each legislator must make up his or her own mind.

Arts groups around the state were scrambling last week to lobby lawmakers and call on wealthy patrons to press for restoring $3.27 million in proposed cuts.

And antismoking groups are lobbying lawmakers to spend significant amounts.

Nothing prohibits an organization or private company, even those that receive benefits, from lobbying lawmakers in the Capitol.