Lobbyists for Enron who once roamed aggressively through Washington are few and far between, now that its lobbying office has been cut from six people to two.

The city's lobbying office, while respected in Washington, is considered much less aggressive than those of other municipalities, several seasoned lobbyists and lawmakers said.

One of Mr. Sheekey's duties is to reorganize the city's lobbying office.

This sort of debacle is not unusual in Albany, and the city's lobbying office seems too weak or disorganized to head off such disasters.

It was only three years ago that Microsoft opened a lobbying office in Washington, Mr. Murray said.

In 1981, Senator D'Amato's first year in Washington, the firm opened a lobbying office there for several months.

The company used to have a lobbying office here and the person who ran it provided the T-shirts.

He later started a lobbying office, representing clients seeking consideration from the government of Western Australia.

And here it is: The Koch brothers are opening a lobbying office in the state that they just bought!

She took a position with International Paper, who sent her to Harrisburg in 1990 to open their lobbying office.