One big reason is the gun lobby, which is one of the most heavily funded in America.

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Democratic politicians everywhere vie for the support of ethnic lobbies.

Even today, the banking lobby runs roughshod over regulators and politicians.

In Brazil, the pension plan of private sector workers runs a small surplus, but that of civil servants runs an enormous deficit, equivalent to of 4.5 of Brazil's GDP.

A US president can challenge political constraints only by taking on powerful lobbies.

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As Anatoly Nikolaev, head of Zarubezh Expo, a Russian industrial lobby observed

From the CIA, to the international Jewish conspiracy, to an interest rate lobby, to Lufthansa Airlines, to a mysterious telekinetic attack by dark forces the list of so called lobbies has become extensive.

The proof is the existence of the almost omnipotent, and in all states, omnipresent lobby.

The gun lobby in the US remains powerful, and politicians are afraid to counter it.

True, in the endgame of the talks, the US caved in to its wealthy and powerful agribusiness lobby.

Policy is driven by three I s ideas, institutions, and interests (i.e., lobbies).

The powerful US cotton lobby wants no change in the level of payments, however.

In the following decades there was a constant battle between the company lobby and the Parliament.

In a paper published prior to the release of their much debated book The Israel Lobby, they argued

The result is that the many lobbies that oppose increased competition, or fight to protect state aid, have been hugely weakened.

It would also levy punitive tariffs on greenhouse gas intensive products imported from countries that lack comparable action to that of the US, starting in 2020. Industrial lobbies and labor unions are pushing hard for these sanctions to take effect more quickly.

He knows that, although the Serbian lobby is weak in the US, it is all powerful in Serbia.

And that is why the Israel Lobby must keep constant pressure on US politicians to confront Tehran.

Industrial lobbies and labor unions are pushing hard for these sanctions to take effect more quickly.

The President's attempts to bring in stricter gun control laws have been thwarted time and time again by the powerful gun lobby.

For this reason, US diplomats are lobbying hard for the OSCE, and Kazakhstan in particular, to be given a fair chance.

In the Lobby Bar, Mr. Putin asked musicians to let him take over at the piano, and he performed Blueberry Hill for the Finnish delegation.

Pensioners are among the most powerful lobbies in a democracy, and politicians are loath to confront them on so fundamental an issue.

For example, Colorado and many other states have sought to require more stringent background checks, aimed at preventing those with criminal records or obvious mental health problems from arming themselves. But few such restrictions have been legislated or have been left unchallenged by the gun lobby when they are.

But that was only after five years of intransigence by Europe s even more powerful farm lobbies.

But few such restrictions have been legislated or have been left unchallenged by the gun lobby when they are.

These social anxieties are not being addressed because financial sector bailouts, stimulus packages, and help for distressed industries with strong lobbies are testing many governments financial limits.

Making matters worse, the US has continually refrained from using its substantial leverage to compel Israel to change course, owing to the domestic political strength of the pro Israel lobby, especially the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

A New York family claims that disco diva Patti LaBelle launched into a rampage in the lobby of their Manhattan building, terrifying their toddler daughter to the point where she threw up in fear.

Second, because IMF intervention would reduce the influence of powerful domestic insiders, early intervention would be less attractive to them.

While Kevin Monk got the car, Roseanna Monk came down to the lobby of their Riverside Boulevard building with their luggage, carrying Genevieve.

For example, Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer, in their notorious essay The Israel Lobby, asserted that AIPAC manufactured the Iraq War.

Europe, Japan, and (to a much lesser extent) the US, were simply unwilling to face down their small but influential farm lobbies.

Wherever powerful lobbies defend existing coal or oil interests, politicians typically are afraid to tell the truth about the need for low carbon energy.

And its export lobby is fighting fiercely to keep the exchange rate roughly where it is relative to the dollar.

Obama also faces falling support from business lobbies in manufacturing and services sectors that are demanding more concessions from other nations.

A strategic lack of transparency is the bread and butter of shrewd politicians who want to please a lobby by hiding the costs of the public's largesse from the majority of citizens.

Second, it leaves time for anti reform lobbies to organize and prevent any progress toward completion of the reform effort.

Brave politicians who do tell the truth about climate change are found mainly in countries that do not have a powerful fossil fuel lobby.

While the rhetoric of commitment to the round remains, in practice there has been a surrender to defensive lobbies clinging to the status quo.

The lobby's interests were, for example, that bananas of the highest quality should measure at least 14 cm in the EU, and were not to display and anomalous curvature.

For example, the real estate lobby in the US obviously has no desire to see government support for housing diminish, despite the fact that the US probably has far more housing stock than it can afford. Similarly, the export lobby in China has no interest in a strong renminbi, even though it is in China s long term interest to let its currency appreciate.